BAE Systems, Red 6 to explore augmented reality systems on Hawk jets - Airforce Technology

The effort is expected to enactment pilots successful identifying, engaging and deterring virtual threats.

BAE Systems and Red 6 person signed a memorandum of knowing to research the possibility of equipping the Hawk trainer craft with augmented world (AR) systems.

BAE Systems’ Hawk precocious trainer is simply a single-seat, multi-role combat craft utilized by subject forces, including the UK Royal Air Force, for grooming pilots.

The announcement was made during the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2022, presently underway successful Orlando, Florida, US.

The latest effort volition spot the 2 companies moving unneurotic to research antithetic ways to integrate Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems (ATARS) into the trainer jet.

The AR strategy is expected to supply easiness to the pilots successful identifying, engaging and deterring virtual threats, during airborne missions. 

Red 6 laminitis and CEO Daniel Robinson said: “Readiness and lethality are captious if warfighters are to prevail against near-peer adversaries.

“I’m thrilled that BAE Systems recognises extremist innovation that ATARS brings to thrust alteration successful subject formation grooming that is truthful desperately needed and that unneurotic tin assistance thrust this transformational shift.”

BAE Systems’ 60 years of acquisition successful the augmented world marketplace volition enactment this collaboration to payment pilots of tomorrow.

The concern volition leverage Red 6’s ATARS exertion and BAE Systems’ expertise successful the accumulation of helmet-mounted displays and successful subject training.

BAE Systems aerial assemblage grooming caput Lucy Walton said: “The modern battlespace is becoming progressively analyzable and integrating exertion specified arsenic Red 6’s AR with Hawk craft is cardinal arsenic we hole pilots for beingness successful a accelerated pitchy cockpit for decades to come.

“We’re trusted by equipped forces astir the satellite to bid implicit 450 pilots per twelvemonth and it’s indispensable we person the close technologies and partnerships to guarantee they enactment up of curve.”