The Shaheen Autonomous Collaborative System (ACS) is a multilayered architecture where there is no dependency on any one aircraft (exclusively) to complete a mission.
The system is integrated as a mesh, interoperable, with interchangeable aircraft, with units and payload being replaced in real time, to ensure persistent dominance and on-time, on-demand availability of intelligence gathering, surveillance capabilities, and kinetic tools availability.
Highlights
- The collaborative architecture enables optimal adaptation to maintain mission performance in the face of attrition.
- This reduces risk of mission failure because one lost aircraft can be substituted by another.
- The loss of one aircraft does not severely impact the cost-effectiveness of the system.
- The kinetic execution can be performed with the less expensive aircraft, when the tactical engagement is well planned.
Structural baseline
- Resilient characteristics to operate in disaggregated, disconnected and degraded environments.
- Interconnected using a common architecture.
- Operate risk-tolerant capable aircraft to complement survivable combat aircraft, under the same control infrastructure.
- It can, and should be implemented as a process, while building infrastructure, training personnel, and adopting its Doctrine of Use. A well thought integration into an already existing structure reduces the financial burden of the acquisition.
Levels of ‘attritability’
- Tier 1 aircraft: ‘survivable’, with high or strategic value. Their loss would significantly affect how the system will operate.
- Tier 2 aircraft: ‘attritable’, expected to survive the mission, but damages or losses are acceptable. In numbers, Tier 2 UAV are a credible force capable of continued operations despite attrition.
- Tier 3: ‘disposable’ aircraft, considering a life-cycle of few missions.
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