Ukrainian drones will be equipped with SAR reconnaissance radars from the French company Harmattan AIwhich will allow recognition even in the presence of clouds or fog.
The information was announced by Mouad M’GhariCEO yes Harmattan AIin an interview with The Great Continentaccording to a report from the Ukrainian portal Militarnyi.
According to M’Ghari, a Harmattan AI developed a SAR radar for drones weighing less than 150 kilograms. This system will now be integrated into Ukrainian systems and deployed in Ukraine, although we do not yet know exactly which Ukrainian drones will receive French radars.
SAR (synthetic aperture radar) is an active remote sensing system that uses microwave radiation to create highly detailed images of the Earth’s surface, which makes it possible to obtain images of territories in any weather conditions: during rain or fog, day or night.
The radar Sahara S.A.R. and Harmattan AI It can capture images with a resolution of 0.25 m at a distance of 2 km and 1.2 m at a distance of 10 km. At the same time, the radar module weighs less than 3.5 kg.
During the interview, M’Ghari also noted that European manufacturers have a lot to learn from certain Ukrainian systems or from certain Ukrainian manufacturers who have years of war experience since 2014.
“Industrial cooperation is often seen from a mercantilist perspective: since some companies sell defense systems and there is a war going on, we should go out there and sell them too,” said M’Ghari.
“Such a rudimentary contract is undoubtedly appropriate — both for the Ukrainians and for us — but it is also interesting to collect data and draw industrial and technological conclusions to understand what the modern theater of war is like.”
“This involves, in particular, understanding the limitations of electronic warfare: when it is no longer possible to communicate via radio waves or locate one another using GPS, how should one act on the modern battlefield?”, he analyzed.
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According to him, sometimes it is necessary to admit that the enemy is the best, and the defense sector has historically never been able to accept this.
It is a fact that war has changed shape. Nowadays, it has become a statistic. Therefore, the proportion of systems capable of operating above a certain capacity level is important.
It is not necessary for 100% of the systems to work. It is much more important that a significant portion of the systems provided work. Providing 1,000 systems, of which 100% work, is much less useful than providing 100,000 systems, of which 80% work.
This issue concerns not only production or its quality, but also the definition of the product and the program itself. According to M’Ghari, this suggests that government agencies responsible for weapons acquisition need to completely change their approach towards systems acquisition.
It is no longer necessary to seek the complete elimination of risks in systems development. Instead, it must be recognized that delivering a product quickly is better than delivering a perfect product, which is why speed has become more important than quality.
“The real strategic weapon of World War II was not the bomber, but the factory. In the US, Germany or elsewhere, every country that survived the war depended on it,” M’Ghari emphasized.
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