This is not the first time that the giant Indra has used artificial intelligence to innovate in military technology. And now a new breakthrough has arrived thanks to the development of the Maestre mission system for integration into armored vehicles wheeled and tracked support vehicle (VAC) 8×8 Dragon of the Spanish Army.
It is a laboratory that replicates the vehicle and a emulation operating environment to work on the mission systems that these armored vehicles will use state-of-the-art. The new laboratory will facilitate not only the development and evolution of the software for these systems, but also training, 4.0 maintenance and testing to study the vehicle’s behaviour in different configurations, as well as the incorporation of new sensors and the analysis of their interoperability with other systems.
Master allow manage the mission system as the driver, vehicle commander, gunner and embarked platoon would. These posts have been designed so that they can also be installed in transportable containers or shelters, so that they can be deployed in the units determined by the army.
Indra’s Head of Land Mission Systems, Vigara Zaera, says that “with this laboratory and the work we have done in recent years with the Ministry of Defense, We are at the forefront of the world in the digitalization of military vehicles”it said in a statement.
Indra’s Maestre system controls the weapons, alert, self-protection, situational awareness, communications and navigation systems, as well as the battlefield management system (BMS) and, in general, All subsystems that carry the 8×8 and the Tracked Support Vehicle (CSV).
Your brain processes all the information collected and presents it in an integrated image to the crew so that it can make decisions quickly and react to any situation. This is the key element for the vehicle’s safety, survivability, fire effectiveness and collaborative combat capability, says Indra.
The 8×8 mission system is one of the key pieces for the digitalization of the Army, which will facilitate the incorporation of land platforms in the future Digital Combat Brigade and its integration into combat scenarios in the cloud and the future Army Logistics Base (BLET). “The company has named its mission system Master in honor of the soldiers who were part of the Spanish Dragon Tercios from the end of the 17th century, which would eventually become the current mechanized Cavalry and Infantry units that use 8×8 and tracked support vehicles. These Tercios were commanded by the Master of the Field,” the statement concludes.