Advanced materials and novel approaches to data processing are influencing a step change in development of the sensors for the UK-led Tempest Future Combat Air System.Progress made in that development by the UK-based defense electronics unit of Leonardo, through the UK's Future Combat Air System Technology Initiative (FCAS TI), is leading toward creation of what the company calls an Integrated Sensing and Non-Kinetic Effect system (Isanke). Onboard sensors such as the radar, those associated with defensive aids suites (DAS), infrared search-and-track (IRST) and electronic support measures will no longer be siloed but will instead be fully integrated and work together through an advanced form of data fusion.
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