Jammers Transmit Battlefield Flexibility

摘要

Armed forces around the world soon may deploy an integrated family of communications intelligence and electronic warfare systems. Designed for export, the hardware and software supports land and sea forces, as well as national intelligence services, by sharing data across all echelons from the tactical level up to national-level organizations. Parts of the system already are in service with the French army.rnUnveiled earlier this year, the Q series offers an intelligence gathering and electronic warfare capability packaged in a set of interoperable software and hardware. Developed and manufactured by the Thales Group's Land and Joint Systems Division, Colombes, France, Q consists of three families of equipment and software: Land Q, Naval Q and Intelligence Q.rnThe entire Q series and its three subsets are now entering service, says Valery Rousset, director of Thales' command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C~4ISR) marketing and capability development, command and intelligence unit, Colombes. The oldest part of Q is three years old, but he notes that no nationrncurrently has the full capability provided by all three equipment groups. Rousset adds that Thales can integrate all three systems into a common operational environment that can be inserted into a national command and control system.