I/ITSEC 2022: BAE Systems and Red 6 augment Hawk trainer jet's reality | Shephard - Shephard News

BAE Systems utilized the I/ITSEC 2022 commercialized amusement successful Orlando, Florida connected 29 November to denote it has signed an MoU with US-based Red 6 to research integration of an augmented world strategy onto the Hawk accelerated pitchy trainer aircraft.

Using Red 6’s Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems (ATARS), Hawk pilots volition beryllium capable to see, place and prosecute virtual threats and cooperate with virtual wingmen portion airborne.

Under the MoU, the partners volition question to recognize however BAE Systems’ acquisition successful grooming and helmet-mounted displays tin beryllium fused with Red 6’s ATARS technology. Unlike immoderate different AR technologies, ATARS tin enactment outdoors successful a high-speed and dynamic environment.

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Daniel Robinson, laminitis and CEO of Red 6, said astatine a property briefing astatine I/ITSEC 2022, that the company recognised a immense occupation for aerial forces.

‘The United States Air Force is astatine its lowest authorities of readiness successful twenty-five years. Currently, 2,000 pilots abbreviated and with a request to treble the fig of grooming sorties by 2030, the existent attack to grooming is successful crisis,’ helium said.

ATARS provides Red Air grooming resources to each squadron, allowing unlimited, synthetic grooming against near-peer adversaries. This reduces the fig of disposable platforms, pilots and instructors needed astatine 1 fixed time.

Lucy Walton, caput of training, BAE Systems’ aerial sector, said: ’The modern battlespace is becoming progressively analyzable and contested and integrating exertion specified arsenic Red 6's augmented world with the Hawk craft is cardinal arsenic we hole pilots for beingness successful a accelerated pitchy cockpit for decades to come.’

The partners could not springiness an nonstop reply arsenic to erstwhile the integration volition beryllium completed, but they said the companies are moving hard to bash it ‘as soon arsenic possible'.

Although this concern sets retired to code the much contiguous needs of aerial forces – peculiarly Hawk users – erstwhile questioned by Shephard, Walton said BAE Systems would ‘absolutely’ see this effort arsenic preliminary works for the UK’s Future Combat Aircraft System/Tempest programme.

She said: ‘We're successful this truly unsocial presumption with the Typhoon and Tempest that we tin research AR connected efficacies and this is thing that we're looking at.’

Robinson echoed this by saying: ‘The absorption was connected training, but determination are monolithic applications for operational usage cases of AR and AI successful the discourse of aboriginal aerial dominance platforms, with FCAS being 1 of them.’

Red 6 was contracted by Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI), an implementation of the USAF SBIR/STTR Supplemental Funding Pilot Program successful 2021 to integrate its ATARS strategy into the T-38 Talon, but Robinson told Shephard the integration has not yet been completed.

The Hawk accelerated pitchy trainer is utilized by the UK, Canada, Finland, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe and different countries.

Red 6 completed its archetypal augmented world grooming ngo with aggregate craft past summer.

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