Se encuentra en desarrollo y etapa de ensayos una nueva tecnología para su incorporación en el Ejército Británico, que mejorará sensiblemente el proceso de reconocimiento, adquisición y ataque a blancos de interés. El sistema digital denominado ASGARD, integrará en una “kill chain” a las fracciones operativas con todos los sensores y sistemas de armas, para atacar al enemigo a las mayores distancias, reduciendo así los tiempos para la toma de decisiones y optimizando el empleo de los recursos disponibles. ASGARD fue recientemente ensayado en el marco de las ejercitaciones operacionales del British Army en Estonia.
New British Army technology has been launched that will improve the accuracy of targeting enemies and reduce decision-making time for strikes.
The Asgard digital system will help soldiers find and attack enemy targets from much greater distances.
Following successful trials by British soldiers in Estonia, Asgard uses artificial intelligence and secure communications to help soldiers make faster decisions about targets, saving crucial time in combat.
The system will make the Army ten times more lethal over the next ten years. It combines weapon systems, surveillance equipment, automated technology, digital connections and data analysis.
Asgard forms part of the work to create a wider digital targeting web across the UK’s Armed Forces by 2027, backed by more than £1 billion in funding. It will better connect military weapons systems, allowing battlefield decisions for targeting enemy threats to be made and executed faster.
The digital system will see the British Army leading the way in NATO in its use of technology to change how it fights, improving speed and accuracy.
Last week, Asgard was showcased to international allies and industry partners in London. Participants were shown the capability in action, including its powerful impact on enemies.
Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Roly Walker said:
“Project Asgard proves we can do things differently. It’s not just a pathfinder for transformation; it’s a transformation in how we find, fund, and fight with cutting-edge capabilities.
“Asgard helps double our lethality and exponentially reduces the time to see, decide, and strike. What took hours, now takes minutes. Today, the UK possesses a similar Recce-Strike system to the one used by Ukraine to maul Russian forces in the Donbas. That system now sits at the heart of our Forward Land Forces in Estonia.
“We are particularly proud of the collaboration between tacticians and technicians, between Defence and Industry, and the support of and to small and medium enterprises and jobs across the UK.”
The modern battlefield is highly complex. All forms of protection must be considered, including high mobility to be unpredictable, camouflage to hide, decoys to deceive, electronic warfare to combat cyber threats and air defence to counter drones.
To fight future wars, the British Army and its NATO Allies must be able to see further and strike further. This is called ‘recce-strike’ and means that soldiers can destroy enemies far beyond the horizon, long before seeing the whites of their eyes. Asgard is designed to optimise recce-strike.
Ukraine has shown NATO that to fight future wars, armies need to rely as much as possible on drones, robots and other autonomous systems.
Asgard has introduced three new ways of fighting designed to find, strike and blunt enemy manoeuvre:
- A dismounted data system for use at company group and below. This vastly enhances voice and data communication at the tactical edge.
- The introduction of the DART 250 One Way Effector. This enables the targeting of enemy infrastructure three times further than the current UK land based deep fires rockets.
- A mission support network to accelerate what is called the digital targeting or ‘kill’ chain.
The digital targeting chain is the sequence of events that starts when you find or ‘sense’ a target, and ‘decide’ whether you are going to strike it, and then attack it with an appropriate weapons system or ‘effector’.
In simple terms, the faster and further away soldiers can do this, the more effect they will have on the enemy.
A prototype Asgard capability was deployed on NATO’s Exercise Hedgehog in Estonia in May this year with British Army troops. Soldiers successfully tested the capability, increasing the UK and NATO Armies’ lethality by improving targeting precision and significantly cutting decision-making time.
Major General Indrek Sirel, Commander of the Estonian Division, said:
“I was really impressed with the speed of the delivery of the concept, because literally a year ago that was just ideas.
“I saw how eager soldiers were to learn the new equipment and how much the introduction of elements of project Asgard already have improved the performance of the Brigade and contributed to the division being more efficient and more lethal.”
Fuente: https://www.army.mod.uk
