Fraunhofer Segment for Defense and Security VVSHypersonic threats are becoming game changers in the field of advanced air defense due to their extreme speed and maneuverability. Their defense has a direct impact on the survivability of critical infrastructures, and thus on strategic deterrence. Fraunhofer VVS offers research and technology in the field of detecting and defending against hypersonic threats.
Countering the hypersonic threat
Research & Development at Fraunhofer Segment for Defense & Security
OBSERVE
- Space-based early warning (infrared, radar)
- Airborne surveillance and tracking (infrared, radar)
- Ground-based surveillance and tracking (radar)
- Space situational awareness SSA
- Atmospheric effects on detection range
- Effects of plasma
ORIENT
- Sensor data and information fusion (e.g. AI based)
- Algorithms and assessment for detection and tracking
- Communication systems
- Encrypted European global navigation system Galileo PRS
- Low-signature rocket propellants
- Signatures (radar, infrared)
- Sensor handover and queuing
DECIDE
- Information technology for command and control (C2)
- Human Systems Engineering
- Coalition Shared Data concepts for Joint ISR
- Cyber security and defense
- Classification discrimination and identification (CDI)
ACT
- Disruption of maneuvering behavior via HPEM
- Jamming of PNT, communications, and further on-board sensors
- Development and analyses of kill mechanisms
- Hypervelocity impact experiments on direct-hit concepts and fragment effectiveness
- Hydrocode simulation of threat-interceptor interaction in full-scale
- Experimental and numerical analysis of laser-based countermeasures
- High-energy laser weapons
- Interceptors
Institutes involved:
Fraunhofer EMI,
Fraunhofer FHR,
Fraunhofer FKIE,
Fraunhofer IIS,
Fraunhofer INT,
Fraunhofer IOF,
Fraunhofer IOSB,
Fraunhofer ICT.