CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR FUTURE ARMS

Military-industrial courier. September 20-26, 2006. By Ilya Kedrov

Yet today, the troop control is performed by means of integrated systems, almost in real time. The network control is one of the main features of next-generation military equipment, where a combat unit is integrated into a common control system, and the effectiveness of a weapon model increases many times. For this reason, the combat effectiveness of a separate subunit, as well as a force grouping, in modern war can be increased only on the basis of prospective automated systems, integration of information resources, and development of modern computer technologies.

Army General Yuri Baluevsky, Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces, stated in the foreword to the new, Volume XIII, of the Encyclopedia "Russia's Arms and Technologies. The XXI Century Encyclopedia" that today we are on the eve of creation of United Information Space of Armed Forces aimed to provide effective interaction between all services and branches of the armed forces. According to the Chief of the General Staff, the United Information Space will be the base for implementing harmonious overall development of the whole Russia's military organization, rather than the Army or the Navy. For this reason, all people involved into military art must take into account all control, communication and radio electronic warfare systems created and being designed now.

The Volume XIII covers satellite communication systems, satellites and transponders, space communication stations, command and staff vehicles, combined radio stations, telegraph systems for special communications, operational and tactical systems, operational and tactical control links. Communication facilities for the tactical control level, as well as problems in implementing real-time information networks, were covered in more detail.

A separate section covers naval communication and control systems including information exchange systems, combat information and control systems, and automated communication systems for ships and submarines. Control and communication systems for Air Force include ground-based and airborne systems for communications, navigation, and identification; radio transceivers; navigation and data transmission systems. It is the first time when there were widely covered radio electronic warfare facilities including radio electronic reconnaissance systems, systems protecting against high-precision weapons, and jamming facilities.

Models of weapons and military equipment are classified in the Encyclopedia according to the Common Classifier of Supply Items of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, compatible with foreign classifiers by its parameters.