Airship drones don’t require ground infrastructure for takeoff (VTOL) andlanding, and most importantly, they don’t require huge hangars for storage. Thismakes the technology much more economically attractive. It’s the cheapest technology for lifting cargo into the air. Drones require maintenance every 6 or 12 weeks, and all routine operations (lubrication, oil and filters) are automated. Given the much less complex and inexpensive in-flight diesel refueling system compared to military aviation, and the long-term continuous operation of electric motors, drones remain in the air and perform their work where necessary, withstanding storm winds, including Category 1 hurricanes. In conditions that are dangerous for operation, drones are brought to a safe altitude or temporarily diverted from the weather front. It’s important to note that constant airborne duty is a unique advantage of this aircraft. With low wind resistance energy consumption, it doesn’t need to expend energy to maintain altitude, nor does it need to spend time preparing for takeoff and arriving at its destination. The base price of the aircraft is less than $2 million, which is 10-100 times less than other manned and unmanned platforms.

Search and destroy criminal and smuggling underground tunnels and bunkers used by terrorists, drug cartels, cybercriminals, and enemy military forces. The technologies used are well known and have been applied for decades in geological exploration. However, modern ground-penetrating radar (GPR) tech and power up to 2MWe allow probing signals to penetrate deeply (up to 200 feet), exploring soil inhomogeneities and voids. The ability to carry high-precision bunker bombs of up to 2x 30,000 lb allows for the destruction of fortified tunnels and bunkers up to 2,400 feet long (in uninhabited areas). Underground tunnels and bunkers are very common on the southern and northern borders and within cities in the US, Canada, Israel, the Middle East, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Serbia, China, Thailand, South America, India, Pakistan, North and South Korea. Scientists and agents both realize that most of the existing tunnels are concentrated in large urban centers where they are difficult to spot with satellite images. The use of underground tunnels and bunkers by criminals is growing rapidly around the world. It is believed that less than 10% of tunnels and bunkers have been discovered so far, most of them based on operational observations or the use of informants.

Continuous monitoring of areas at high risk of wildfires and readiness to become a first responder within the first 40 minutes after a fire breaks out is key to accomplishing this important mission for this aircraft. In fact, this problem has been the priority idea behind its creation since 2019. We must not forget or succumb to the misconception that aerial firefighting today has many limitations, the main ones being low endurance, insufficient payload, low accuracy and efficiency of drops, high cost per hour of operation, and risk to pilots. Ground services have even more limitations. They are not always able to contain fires at the community border, and wildlands are protected only by creating black strips and backfires, which pose a high risk to the life and health of wildland firefighters. Drones can handle this task of prescribed fuel burning faster and can ensure that the fire doesn’t get out of control and become another wildfire. It takes 400,000 gallons of water to suppress an 8-acre wildfire, and tens of millions of gallons for fires covering tens of thousands of acres. Any surface water source (fresh or salt water) can be used for intake. There are no other technologies that can compete with this one.

The main function of Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) is to scan a wide range of radio frequencies, select bands for tracking, analyze spectrograms, directional diagrams, and waterfalls using AI, decompose carriers, identify characteristic patterns, and locate signal sources. Airborne deployment allows for more effective interaction with RF compared to ground stations, and the drone’s ultra-low vibration ensures more accurate results. High load capacity and power up to 2 MWe mean excellent capabilities. These same advantages are characteristic of EO/IR (aerial photography) tasks with a resolution unavailable to satellites and endurance unavailable to airplanes and helicopters. The same applies to radar sensing, incl. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Tasks include supporting stealth BLOS comms and remote control of unmanned systems (Digital Beamforming) as a transceiver (Rx/Tx/TRX) and supporting global navigation in conditions of satellite signal suppression or distortion. Tasks of scanning and analyzing audio signals using AI, including directional source location using MEMS cardioid microphones in a dome array, DOA, phase triangulation method, Doppler scanning, Signal Processing (Gunfire Locator, human activity, aircraft motor, vehicles), source localization. A large complex of ISR on board.

Although the airship drone itself is a representative of the UAV class, it is capable of carrying up to 48 fixed-wing drones and several hundred rotary-wing drones on its deck, hardpoints, and inside the gondola. Its payload capacity of up to 60,000 lb (at an altitude of up to 13,000 ft) and dimensions open up a wide range of possibilities for air launching heavy drones such as the MQ-9 Reaper (7,000 lb), Anduril YFQ-44 (5,000 lb), Elbit Hermes 900, BAE Systems Mantis, IAI Eitan, and other medium-sized and small fixed-wing drones. Air launch features include two options: downward launch from a catapult (landing top-down on the same rail using retaining guide cable grips) and launch from a hardpoint (without returning to the platform). Takeoff and landing trajectories don’t intersect. Electric-powered recon and strike drones are equipped with a fast charging function and robotic ammo loading. The possibility of refueling drones with turboprop and jet engines is being studied. Control is provided by RF using a directional beam (hopping frequencies, Rx/Tx/TRX), an IR laser, and a fiber optic cable (up to 40 miles, unwinder on the launch pad). The airship drone has a high class of passive and active safety in case of kinetic impact and is a reliable docking station for expensive equipment.

Counter-UAS systems can detect UAVs at altitudes of up to 50,000 feet, above water and land surfaces, at distances of up to 250 nautical miles. Even UAVs with ultra-low radar signatures, controlled by fiber optic cable, can be detected by audio and visual signatures at distances of up to 12 miles. This is sufficient for friend-or-foe id and countermeasures. The primary means of suppression is considered to be a long-pulse high-power microwave (HPM) system (300 MHz - 300 GHz, up to 12 miles) with a pulse power of up to 8 MWe. An alternative solution could be a 1-2 MWe class high-energy laser, interceptor drones based on board the airship drone, air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. These same countermeasures are capable of detecting and engaging other aircraft, incl. most classes of missiles. The main advantage is constant readiness to detect, track, and engage more than 1,000 targets, as well as the use of several types of target engagement, incl. more than 280 lightweight and less expensive 100-1,000 pound air-based anti-aircraft guided missiles. The response time is less than 2 sec., with up to 40 targets simultaneously. At the same time, drones, aircraft, and helicopters are intercepted at a slant range of up to 130 nm, tactical ballistic missiles up to 75 nm, and cruise missiles up to 60 nm.

This platform is an excellent class of aircraft for geospatial intelligence tasks. Its capabilities for extended piloting in challenging weather conditions at altitudes up to 13,000 feet (up to 25,000 feet with reduced payload) are not limited to SIGINT and AEW&C tasks. It includes, but is not limited to, data ranging from the ultraviolet through the microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The key conditions for Geospatial Intelligence are: field of view, constancy and history of observations, probing frequency, possibilities of simultaneous probing and imaging by different methods, image resolution, imaging angle (inclination), time of day and cloud density. The drone is better suited for more detailed surveillance, has higher resolution and sensing power, and can stay in the quadrant of interest for long periods of time (72+ hours, up to 12 weeks with in-air refueling with diesel fuel). GEOINT Singularity describes a hypothetical future time when the capabilities of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) have advanced to full information availability and transparency. Physical activity on the earth’s surface would then be monitored, analyzed, and made available in real time, and the information would be used by government, business, and individuals for decision making.

Most manufacturers of heavy and medium-sized fixed-wing drones have claimed that UAVs are significantly more effective for search missions than airplanes and helicopters. Some of them have obtained or plan to obtain FAA certification for such flights. The complexity of search missions lies in the large areas to be covered and the limitations on basing (due to endurance of 3-16 hours). In the case of air-based deployment of several dozen electric-powered drones simultaneously, this method is the best solution, as they can fly and return to the airship-drone platform for quick recharging. However, rescue missions are not limited to search and rescue; the airship drone has broader capabilities for delivering drinking water, essential supplies, and ammunition to the military, providing an evacuation corridor during wildfires (including for wild animals), emergency power supply, and emergency pump-out of fresh, salt, and dirty water. It can also be used to evacuate people from tall buildings (through windows and roofs) and from surfaces at altitudes of up to 25,000 feet in conditions of strong wind, rain, and snowfall. And evacuation of damaged military equipment along with the crew.

All-weather, 24/7 continuous surveillance and fire correction systems (ED 72-180+ hours, aerial refueling) up to 26,000 feet with a range of 200-250 nautical miles (AZ 360°, EL 225°), with antenna power up to 2 MWe and resolution quality unattainable by satellites. Airship drone fills surveillance gaps at altitudes of 3,000-26,000 feet, day and night, in a hovering mode or smooth motion without vibration. It is distinguished by 5 major advantages: 5-15 times more endurance, more than 10 times more probing power, greater carrying capacity to accommodate dozens of rigid-wing and rotor-type drones, better kinetic threat defense than other aircraft, significantly lower cost and operating expenses. The aging AEW&C / AWACS fleet will require significant renewal, radar modernization and increased numbers in service over the next 10 years. Growing number of threats, low endurance based on airplanes (6-12 hrs) and helicopters (4 hrs), limited capabilities (low resolution) of satellite systems are the main problems to have “eyes and ears” in all points of the world. Pulse illumination of targets using an IR laser or radar guidance to the target using a highly directional beam RF signal reduces vulnerability (detection only by the target’s onboard radar), and allows the use of significantly less expensive guided munitions.

One Airborne Carrier Strike Group (A-CSG) can include 6 to 30 airship drones of various modifications, including the deployment of other types of drones (24+24 rigid wing drones with a range of 80-120 nautical miles, up to 300 rotor-type drones with a range of 8-12 nautical miles) aboard each aircraft-carrying airship. The A-CSG may also include refueling drones (also used for firefighting), IRS drones (AEW&C, SIGINT, COMMS, GNS), logistics drones (coast-to-deck, deck-to-deck, deck-to-air deck), air mobility (personnel, USMC squads, SOCOM teams, CASEVAC, MEDEVAC). This is the ability to deliver, launch, automatically maintain and receive up to several dozen heavy and medium-size strike drones and up to several hundred rotor drones - all with low-noise electric jet and propeller propulsion systems. This is a multiple increase in firepower and deployment speed over the current 11 carrier-based CSGs available today at an incomparably lower cost. A rough estimate is 3,500-4,500 units as part of the U.S. Navy.

Many natural disasters are complex and lead to a multitude of consequences that cause collapse. For example, after an earthquake, fires break out, bridges and roads are destroyed, and people are trapped under collapsed buildings. This is where drones come in handy for aerial firefighting, delivering heavy and large temporary bridges, sky cranes, and lighting. During and after a flash flood, important tasks include searching for and rescuing people, ensuring transport accessibility, and emergency removal of water from places that get in the way of rescuers during their mission. In the event of destruction after a tornado and during sudden cold spells, the most important tasks are to provide emergency power supply, deliver water, essential items, equipment, and construction machinery. In the event of wildfires and man-made disasters, in addition to intensive fire suppression and containment, it is important to create evacuation corridors (including for wild animals) and to evacuate people directly from fire traps (including tall buildings). Of particular value for this technology is its ability to operate for long periods in remote and mountainous areas, in conditions of strong wind, rain, snowfall, and at critical temperatures.

The capabilities of airship drones in the field of radar probing. High electrical power of up to 2 MWe creates unique opportunities for more powerful probing signals. The number of phased array antenna sections, their weight, and dimensions are significantly greater than on other airborne and ground-based mobile platforms. This increases the number of simultaneous beams and their interference capabilities for amplification (Digital Beamforming). A highly-directional beam (up to 1.5°) RF signal reduces its own vulnerability (only the target’s onboard radar can be detected). The radar can operate in a wide range (10 MHz - 40 GHz), i.e., it can be a universal radar for most tasks on the surface and in the air, as well as at depths of up to 200 feet underground and 60 feet underwater. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) based on an airship drone platform further expands scanning capabilities. SAR operates across a wide range of frequencies, encompassing multiple bands such as X (8.5-12 GHz), C (4-8 GHz), S (2-4 GHz), L (1-2 GHz), and P (300 MHz - 1 GHz), with wavelengths ranging from centimeters to meters. The ability to change location and altitude sets this technology apart from satellite systems, and the ability to operate in hover mode for long periods of time sets it apart from airplane- and helicopter-based SAR.

Existing remote mining technologies using aircraft and drones, along with large numbers of unexploded bombs and artillery shells, are constantly expanding the area of danger for military and civilians both during military conflicts and for many years afterwards. The unique capabilities of high-power radars, using hundreds or thousands of beams simultaneously, to detect mines and IEDs on the surface and at depths of up to 10 feet (for small objects) or in water up to 4 feet below the surface, can provide a highly effective approach to locating objects that pose a danger to people, equipment, and animals. In addition, the ability to use a 1-2 MWe class high-energy laser simultaneously with detection makes it possible to neutralize explosives in such hazardous locations (in uninhabited areas). Unfortunately, these operations have to be carried out repeatedly in the same places, because conflicts can continue and terrorists can install IEDs again and again. Such a robotic airborne complex is a unique solution that saves many lives, including those of EOD technicians.

The ability to recognize wanted persons, license plate numbers, and vehicle types using an airborne platform provides security in areas with high crime rates and terrorist threats. Law-abiding citizens don’t protest when a police patrol car drives by from time to time. However, constant monitoring in areas with high levels of violence can significantly help law enforcement agencies to solve and prevent crimes. There are some differences between street cameras and cameras on police cars. A higher shooting angle and a more complex recognition process. But more powerful optics and synchronization of shooting from multiple angles by different drones, as well as the launch of electric-powered rotary drones to patrol shaded areas. A wider field of view, SWIR / LWIR capabilities, higher resolution, radar probing, scanning and localization of audio signal sources (Gunfire Locator), analysis of signals from transponders pre-installed on vehicles for the purpose of behavioral analysis of the routes traveled by each vehicle, which allows 3-4 drones to cover an area of hundreds of square miles (several districts of a large city).

Low-level radioactive emission detection (objects and surfaces, aerosols, shielded materials), including detection of ionizing radiation sources, high-precision mapping and localization (Scintillation, Digital Beamforming, analysis of interference between probing photons and radiation photons, frequency decomposition, Digital Multiplier, AI/ML/CL), recording their activity (in becquerels), absorbed dose (in grays), and dose rate (in sieverts). Airborne detection of radioactive emissions has been used for a long time, but it has several disadvantages that this technology doesn’t have. Insufficient payload capacity and power of onboard equipment, as well as the inability to operate in hover mode for long periods of time, significantly reduce the effectiveness of detection and localization. This airborne technology offers many more opportunities to increase scanning sensitivity and performance. This, in turn, will increase monitoring coverage and prevent the illegal spread of radioactive materials, as well as enable the timely detection of hazardous waste both on the surface and at shallow underground depths.

Counterterrorism tasks are, unfortunately, very broad, and in many of them this technology can play a decisive role. These include monitoring, Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), detection of radioactive emissions, search and destruction of criminal tunnels and bunkers, facial and vehicle recognition, early warning and control (AEW&C) tasks during missile launches, and effective protection against drones (C-UAS). However, the time between detection and recognition of intentions or between the start of an attack and the start of suppression is crucial for saving lives. Therefore, at the same time, the ability to deploy surveillance and strike drones (lethal and non-lethal weapons, drone-hanging robots) on the surface reduces the response time from tens of minutes (sometimes hours) to 1-2 minutes to mitigate or prevent tragedies. We are also considering the theoretical possibility of using radar scanning, in conjunction with facial recognition, to implement technology for detecting concealed firearms in order to reduce the number of tragic incidents involving shootings.

Cross-border issues primarily include drug and weapons smuggling, as well as illegal border crossings. In today’s criminal world, unmanned systems are increasingly being used, which CBP operatives are unable to detect and suppress over large areas of the border. Electric-powered patrol drones typically have a flight endurance of less than an hour, while launching heavy and medium-sized drones is more expensive and requires infrastructure near the takeoff and landing sites. This leaves large areas of the border as gray zones. This technology combines the capabilities of UAS and C-UAS, i.e., the ability to carry dozens of fixed-wing drones and hundreds of rotary-wing drones with electric propulsion and fast charging, as well as the ability to detect and destroy criminal drones at long distances. In addition, this platform’s capabilities include detecting underground tunnels at depths of up to 200 feet and destroying them in uninhabited areas. Tracking illegal border crossings, detaining violators with drones until patrols arrive, and providing detained violators with drinking water also become more effective with this technology.

Logistics of Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel, transport, and cargo. Support for amphibious operations in coastal areas and installation of temporary bridges and pontoons. Covert operations. A distinctive feature is the drone’s ability to fly silently and its ultra-low radar signature, as well as the absence of a thermal signature from its engines and an infrared signature. The drone can only be distinguished in the sky by visual means (which does not greatly distinguish it from other transport aircraft). Because of this, special operations forces most often plan deployment and evacuation at night. For quick and safe landing and takeoff, a retractable scissor mechanism at an angle of 30-45° to the horizon with a conveyor winch is used. Cargo and transport can be placed inside the gondola, on mounts above, and in hangpoints below. If needed, a smoke screen is used to imitate cloud cover. This tech has a lot of advantages over helicopters for these kinds of missions. Military rapid response forces always need quiet and stealthy air transport that can remain within a few minutes’ flight time for unplanned evacuations, provide enhanced SIGINT situational awareness from the air, stealthy BLOS communications, and, if necessary, sufficient fire support.

Search for ships in distress, including evacuation of people from the water in conditions of strong winds and high waves. Continuous monitoring of coastal shipping, identification of violations of navigation rules, detection of cases of anchor or mooring failure (dangerous drift), recording of border control violations, first responder in cases of fire, prevention of maritime terrorism and piracy. Monitoring smuggling and transshipment at sea, illegal fishing, waste disposal at sea, oil pollution, and controlling encounters between people and shark populations near the coast during their mating season. The patrol tasks based on this unmanned platform should include navigable rivers and lakes, other water bodies where incidents involving yachts, boats, and large numbers of swimmers occur periodically. A separate function should be the anti-submarine warfare capabilities for detecting unmanned underwater and surface vehicles used for drug trafficking. An auxiliary task is logistics for coast guard ships and boats. The use of this unmanned technology not only reduces detection and response times, but also reduces the risk to coast guard crews.

To effectively manage a dynamic battlefield, commanders must have accurate real-time information about the location of friendly and enemy forces, see their movement history, and know about ammo stocks in each unit and the combat readiness of personnel and equipment. At the same time, this info must not be intercepted by the enemy, and any electronic countermeasures employed by either side must not interfere with the data exchange. This tech is capable of providing objectives at the periphery and at data exchange nodes, while simultaneously offloading general traffic using Edge Computing. Multi-domain ops should be based solely on a comprehensive picture of the battlefield without the negative influence (delay) of the human factor of coordination officers, the chain and time of decision-making should be reduced. This is only possible with the deployment of the Soldier-as-Sensor concept and distributed computing. The interface is implemented using AR,with the difference that it doesn’t dependon the brightness of the environment anddoesn’t make the user a visible targetfor snipers at night. Defeating the enemyis only possible through technological superiority. The price of the tech is x1.5-2 lower than a single 155 mm artillery shell.

The tactic of infiltrating small infantry and sabotage-reconnaissance groups behind the line of combat, as well as the tactic of rapid maneuverable reconnaissance groups and special operations forces, leads to the formation of a large gray zone where friendly forces and enemy forces are mixed. It is impossible to conduct air and artillery strikes in such gray zones. Different forces have different speeds of movement. Different missions and terrain can limit maneuvers and cause deviations from the schedule. As a result, friendly and enemy forces may not have up-to-date information and may accidentally come under friendly and crossfire, as well as make rash maneuvers, encountering ambushes and unequal enemy forces. Only Friend-or-Foe technology for everyone on the battlefield (people, equipment, drones, robots), invisible to enemy electronic intelligence, can accurately provide situational awareness of the dynamic battlefield. The technology allows secret units and their missions on the surface and in the air to be hidden from broad access in the tactical situational awareness window, while protecting their areas from friendly and crossfire.

Timely detection of UAVs by radar, RF, acoustic, and visual signatures allows each soldier to take cover or open fire to destroy the target. The ratio of fatalities to injuries in Ukraine has increased from 1:3 to 1:1 with the use of drones. Firing small arms at low-altitude aerial targets is a difficult task for ballistic calculation and dynamic aiming. Even experienced snipers don’t perform well in this situation. However, modern AI/ML technologies, Computer Vision, Computer Audition, and the computing power of this wearable device allow for accurate calculation of the ballistic trajectory for 5.56x45, 7.62x51, and 12.7x99 calibers (slope range up to 2,000 yards), target height and speed, azimuth and elevation angle, corrections, and lead for short bursts of fire. In addition, the aiming assistant, to an accuracy of 1/16 inch, helps to establish the line of fire in conditions where there are no visual reference points for accurate shooting. Special attention should be paid to the tactics of using rotary drone drones, which land while waiting for a target and then suddenly take off again to strike. This modern ambush tactic can be prevented using the built-in SIGINT and Computer Vision functions.

Friendly fire and crossfire losses in modern conflicts account for 20-40% of casualties. Even for combat forces with extensive experience and training, equipped with modern communications, UAVs, and robots, such losses amount to at least 20%. Problems arise due to communication failures, distorted and inaccurate intelligence data, operational and tactical planning, untimely or disproportionate changes, and errors made by commanders and military personnel in the execution of tasks. The solution to the problem is an accurate real-time picture of the battlefield, stealthy fast and instant BLOS communications, the use of AI and fire assistants to control planning and task execution errors, and the correct choice of means for delivering fire support strikes. Protected areas in the Tactical Situational Awareness window prevent friendly and crossfire from being directed at other fighters in the same or neighboring units, as well as at covert positions of friendly snipers, fire correctors, and Force Recon.

There are four main problems. Problem #1 is the use of night vision devices in conditions of starlight and moonlight without IR illumination. These are analog and expensive devices with a small field of view and low clarity. Problem #2 is that in conditions of complete darkness, IR illumination on the body makes a soldier an excellent target for enemy snipers. Even without IR illumination, all night vision devices used today, without exception, create a area of reflect illumination on the face, which poses a danger to users. Problem #3 is that military personnel need SWIR/LWIR devices, as well as optical zoom (10x and more) at any time of day, i.e., constantly. Plus, the ability to recognize targets using Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Computer Audition, Passive Cover Surveillance Radar (AI / CV / CA / PCSR), where the user observes a mixed synthetic image in 4K resolution (Synthetic Vision) rather than a grainy image with blurred contours. Finally, the main problem #4 is that the devices are very expensive and it is impossible to equip everyone with them. The cost of this technology makes it possible to provide superhuman vision and hearing to everyone on the battlefield.

The tactic of harassing fire wastes ammunition, increases the weight of equipment, and complicates combat logistics. Long-range precision fire is now mainly performed only by snipers and barrel artillery. According to statistics, the consumption per target hit is hundreds, sometimes thousands, of small arms and 8-11 (up to $80K) artillery rounds. Reasons: insufficient or inaccurate real-time battlefield data for each soldier, interfering environmental conditions, stress, too great a range for accurate fire, insufficient shooting skills, barrel wear. The solution is to eliminate the problems of insufficient situational awareness and threat detection, including Gunfire Locator, electronic assistants for Synthetic Vision and Audition for automatic target capture, AI fire assistant, including target distribution within a team (to avoid crossfire and unnecessary shots), ballistic calculation, aiming assistance, and ammunition inventory tracking.

BLOS (Beyond Line-of-Sight) comms are only available to platoon-level commanders and above, as well as mechanized units. Squad and team-level commanders only have LOS comms. In a drone war, mechanized assaults, rapid maneuvers, drone launch and landing points, infiltration tactics, and remote mining carry a high risk of vulnerability and entrapment. At the same time, directional antennas for commsare mainly used only by mobile and stationary command posts, aircraft, and ships. This means that almost all sources of signal transmission on the battlefield today are visible to the enemy, plus EW is constantly evolving, incl. friendly forces. Therefore, and also due to the high cost of stations, with the exception of commanders, warfighters today have no comms other than voice and gestures for close range. It’s hard to believe, but it’s reality. We must provide everyone with secure, stealthy BLOS comms, while reducing traffic and offloading channels, overcoming electronic suppression, providing instant comms within the unit, and AI to speed up comms (smart chats, cross-domain comms). Performing covert missions snipers, fire spotters, Force Recon, and SOF, will also be able to connected without exposing themselves to the risk of detection, friendly fire, and crossfire.

The goal is to reduce friendly fire casualties, stress, increase combat effectiveness and lethality, reduce ammo consumption, shorten combat time, and most importantly, to gain superiority over an enemy using the same weapons. If the average range for aimed rifle fire is 30-100 yards, only harassing fire is used at ranges over 200 yards, then increasing aimed non-sniper fire for 5.56x45, 7.62x51, 12.7x99 calibers to 800 yards simultaneously achieves all of the above goals. The proposed solution is based on the ability to capture and track targets using AI/ML/CV, Gunfire Locator, Passive Radar, mixed Synthetic Vision with 24x optical zoom, a Fire Assistant with ballistic calculation and aiming assistance. This tech creates a7-x advantage over enemy within theguaranteed kill range, providing additionaltime and space for fire support Takinginto account high aiming accuracy, rational use of ammo, threat analysis, stealthy data exchange, constant many-to-many comms; the ratio of superiority increases to 20 times. This means that a single squad can destroy a platoon or incapacitate an enemy company. This is important for expeditionary missions, rapid response forces, amphibious ops, deflecting enemy fire at a remote outpost.

The project implements two ranges for detecting threats on the surface and in the air:

(1) 2-25 miles: Passive Radar (metal, liquids, people, including those behind concrete and earth cover), RF detection and direction finding;

(2) Up to 2 miles: plus audio-visual signatures (up to 24x EO / SWIR / LWIR image, noises, gunshot sources, drones, equipment, footsteps).

It is important to note that these detection methods are passive and don’t create signatures that could attract the attention of enemy reconnaissance and snipers during the day or at night. Given the 7x superiority in guaranteed kill range and the ability to destroy low-altitude aerial unarmored targets with the first shot, this means that each warfighter has significantly more time to take cover and aim accurately. It also means that commanders have more time to respond to deflect the threat. And with more effective cross-domain interaction, it means that countermeasures are likely already executed and known to warfighters in the area of potential threat impact. The user sees the results of all activated systems simultaneously in their Augmented Reality interface without losing touch with the surrounding reality.

EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) is an essential capability for every military personnel who may encounter threats from anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, improvised explosive devices, and remotely detonated explosive devices. Modern technologies for remote mining using aircraft and drones only increase this threat. This function is implemented as a built-in feature for effective and safe movement on foot and using transport. It is based on the capabilities of passive multistatic radar and Software Defined Antenna (phased array, Digital Beamforming, multiband). The source of the probing signal is not located on the body so as not to create vulnerability. Plastic explosive devices contain a metal detonator and liquid explosive, which allows them to be detected even at shallow depths. Because sabotage teams operate behind battle lines and remote mining continues again and again, this feature is a unique solution that saves many lives.

Care-under-Fire (CuR) and Resuscitation-on-the-Move (RoM). The first seconds and minutes after being wounded are golden, as they say in military slang. Often, in the heat of battle, it is impossible to provide first aid, especially if the person is unconscious. Several built-in features can save these lives. They all work in harmony with each other and with the Vitals Body Sensors system (ECG-18, NIBP, TEMP, SpO2, ETCO2, RESP, HYDR, Glasgow test). Eight automatic tourniquets should stop acute bleeding in the affected part of the extremity. Automatic infusion therapy will allow for emergency replacement of part of the blood volume. A built-in defibrillator (AED) will prevent cardiac arrest whenever possible. Non-invasive pulmonary ventilation (DPAP) will prevent oxygen desaturation of the brain and help during intense exertion or acute stress. Data on the condition of the warfighter will be transmitted to nearby colleagues and command. In general, these technologies have been known and used for a long time, but this is the first time they have been implemented and automated in this way.

Quite recently, drone and robot operators have been included in every combat unit (platoon-level and above). The USMC has gone furthest in this direction, requiring every squad to include at least one FPV operator. However, modern military tactics now require everyone on the battlefield to be able to control a drone (robot) or a swarm of drones (robots) of various classes. In other words, the ratio of people to drones (robots) will change with each passing year until the number of drones consistently exceeds the number of people. Of course, specialized units of drone and robot ops will continue to exist, and FPV ops will remain far from the line of combat. But the use of tactical drones and robots (especially those controlled by fiber optic cable) by each unit significantly increases its effectiveness. This would have been impossible before, as combining several tasks at once by one person, especially using an FPV headset with full focus and loss of situational awareness, creates vulnerability and reduces cognitive abilities for the user. This feature is implemented using Augmented Reality and is built-in, with several innovations for stealthy, safe control, bypassing restrictions in case of signal suppression, covert (and deceptive) takeoff and landing trajectories, AI functions for automatic piloting using voice prompts.

Previously, SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) tasks were performed by engineering units specializing in communications and radio-electronic intelligence. This is no longer sufficient because receiving antennas must be located within the signal propagation radius, especially when using directional transmitting antennas. The battlefield is saturated with communications signals, radio beacons, and radar probing signals. The tasks of simultaneously scanning multiple bands, analyzing spectrograms, directional diagrams, and frequency waterfalls, identifying frequencies and channels, modulations, and patterns (including signal multiplexing) are successfully performed by AI in the background, while simultaneously informing users and command. This information complements the dynamic real-time picture of the battlefield, allowing threats to be tracked in a timely manner and the signal source to be accurately located for a strike. Most often, the user sees the results of automatic detection in their Augmented Reality interface, which does not interfere with the perception of the surrounding reality.

Maps and navigation are now implemented on 7-10” tablet computers located on the chest in a plastic case worn by the team leader or higher-ranking personnel. Of course, applications such as ATAK MIL are more helpful than paper maps were in the past, but they are not sufficient. In addition, they distract the user from situational awareness. Instead, a built-in feature using Augmented Reality has been implemented for everyone on the battlefield, which doesn’t require distraction and is integrated with other applications for situational awareness, rapid communications, task auto-tracking, analysis of other users’ best practices, route history, and real-time threat assessment. A multitude of AI capabilities help users avoid mistakes and threats by providing commanders and other users with important information in real time. Special attention is paid to more efficient combat logistics and CASEVAC tasks using drones and robots.

A great deal of time and effort is invested in training military personnel by instructors, officers, and more experienced fighters in teams. However, it is important that this process can be made even more efficient and scalable. Repetition and error control using AI, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, and the ability to see oneself from the outside can reduce the training period. Improving the experience and eliminating the use of ineffective outdated practices is the main goal of this feature. Unlike popular civilian language models, these models rely exclusively on approved, up-to-date methodologies and instructions (Warfighting / Tactical / Interim / Reference Publications) and the practices of the best instructors, allowing them to be digitized and scaled virtually. Since the system collects a lot of data in real time along with the user’s cognitive functions, it often doesn’t even need user prompts to understand what’s going on and what the user intends to do in the near future. This allows it to interact with the user virtually and subtly to improve their experience and prevent mistakes, while still letting them make their own decisions.

L-STE (Live-Synthetic Training Environment) is a common technique today for improving training experiences in mixed environments. Typically, many training techniques are refined and don’t include many factors that arise simultaneously and in large numbers in real combat conditions. Most often, military personnel compete with teams of other beginners. But more importantly, they are psychologically attuned to the specifics of such risk-free training, often even playing along with each other. Instructors aren’t always able to identify hidden problems that need to be further explained and trained. Training using AI models as opponents, which have absorbed the practices from the real-life experience of many thousands of the most effective fighters, will be more effective and better prepare military personnel for unforeseen situations on the battlefield. The first combat experience sobering up the military personnel, and by and large, only from this moment does their true training begin. The opportunity to find oneself in such a mixed live and synthetic environment, to emotionally understand the importance of the instructors’ words from the first day of training in conditions of complete immersion, is invaluable.

Hardware features monitor the health of user during sports, training, and combat missions. Vitals Body Sensors (ECG-18, NIBP, TEMP, SpO2, ETCO2, RESP, HYDR, Glasgow test) tracks the status and prevents critical conditions by notifying the user, colleagues, and command. Dynamic and continuous positive airway pressure (DPAP/CPAP) combined with an air cleaning system will ensure easier breathing without exposure to toxic particles, gases, bacteria, viruses, providing sufficient oxygen and ventilation. The active noise reduction and dynamic dampers protect the hearing organs from acoustic barotrauma (as does the isolated breathing system for the respiratory organs) without compromising acoustic awareness of the surroundings. The built-in drinking system allows you to stay properly hydrated. Additional protection for the entire face and head, with low weight and low torque, provides safety against most fragmentation injuries (up to 0.7 g) and other kinetic injuries from splinters, stones, sand, and dust, while masking the user’s face and speech. Ventilation of the face, the head, and neck improves tone and reduces fatigue, esp. in direct sunlight, heat, during intense exertion; heat conductivity increases under the helmet (heat transfer prevents risk of heat stroke).