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EuroDASS unveils plan for new Typhoon DASS/EW suite
21 October 2019
Praetorian Evolution builds on the Typhoon’s existing Praetorian DASS but introduces a new all-digital architecture and expands EW functionality beyond platform self-protection. Source: EuroDASS
The four-country EuroDASS consortium - UK's Leonardo, Italy's Elettronica, Germany's Hensoldt, and Spain's Indra - has outlined its vision of a next-generation electronic warfare (EW) suite for the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft.
Known as Praetorian Evolution, the future Defensive Aids Subsystem (DASS) builds on the Typhoon's existing Praetorian DASS but introduces a new all-digital architecture and expands electronic warfare (EW) functionality beyond platform self-protection. EuroDASS has developed its roadmap independent of the Praetorian Long Term Evolution (LTE) study activity awarded earlier this year, although Praetorian Evolution work is expected to inform LTE outputs.
The Praetorian DASS provides the Typhoon with threat detection, evaluation, and countermeasures against air-to-air and surface-to-air threats using radio frequency (RF) and infrared guidance. The system includes electronic support measures, an active missile approach warner, electronic countermeasures, towed decoys, and initiation of chaff/flares.
However, the existing Praetorian DASS was defined in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and its architecture now imposes constraints on further development with regard to further expansion, capability insertion, and long-term sustainability. Details of Praetorian Evolution were given to military and industry stakeholders at a EuroDASS Future Capability user conference in London on 9 October.
According to Phil Liddiard, Leonardo's vice-president combat air, work to define a future DASS architecture has been driven by new and more complex threats, the requirement to embody additional capabilities such as combat intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and a desire to develop a 'futureproofed' software-based system architecture that is easier to maintain and upgrade. "As a consortium, we've been looking for the last three years at various solutions," Liddiard told Jane's . "That work pre-dates the LTE as we recognised the need some time ago to get a head start on working up what we thought was the best option."
21 October 2019
Praetorian Evolution builds on the Typhoon’s existing Praetorian DASS but introduces a new all-digital architecture and expands EW functionality beyond platform self-protection. Source: EuroDASS
The four-country EuroDASS consortium - UK's Leonardo, Italy's Elettronica, Germany's Hensoldt, and Spain's Indra - has outlined its vision of a next-generation electronic warfare (EW) suite for the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft.
Known as Praetorian Evolution, the future Defensive Aids Subsystem (DASS) builds on the Typhoon's existing Praetorian DASS but introduces a new all-digital architecture and expands electronic warfare (EW) functionality beyond platform self-protection. EuroDASS has developed its roadmap independent of the Praetorian Long Term Evolution (LTE) study activity awarded earlier this year, although Praetorian Evolution work is expected to inform LTE outputs.
The Praetorian DASS provides the Typhoon with threat detection, evaluation, and countermeasures against air-to-air and surface-to-air threats using radio frequency (RF) and infrared guidance. The system includes electronic support measures, an active missile approach warner, electronic countermeasures, towed decoys, and initiation of chaff/flares.
However, the existing Praetorian DASS was defined in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and its architecture now imposes constraints on further development with regard to further expansion, capability insertion, and long-term sustainability. Details of Praetorian Evolution were given to military and industry stakeholders at a EuroDASS Future Capability user conference in London on 9 October.
According to Phil Liddiard, Leonardo's vice-president combat air, work to define a future DASS architecture has been driven by new and more complex threats, the requirement to embody additional capabilities such as combat intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and a desire to develop a 'futureproofed' software-based system architecture that is easier to maintain and upgrade. "As a consortium, we've been looking for the last three years at various solutions," Liddiard told Jane's . "That work pre-dates the LTE as we recognised the need some time ago to get a head start on working up what we thought was the best option."