FUTURE ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE

Anti-aircraft Defence (DAA) is the group of measures designed to cancel or reduce the efficiency of hostile aircraft action. This activity is closely related to threat, that strongly influences the DAA. The same deploymente can be very safe and complete before a threat, and entirely inappropriate before another one.

The current battlefield has dramatically changed over the past years. The possibility of deploying devices to avoid or difficulty the movement of the enemy towards an area (anti-acces and area denial systems, A2/AD) to restrict the use of aircraf means to the enemy is on the rise. This will increase even more in the future, with more countries able to deploy these A2/AD systems, with greater capabilities incorporated into them.

Thus, the contribution of DAA will materialise in anti-aircraft protection actions (integrated into the aircraft defence system), and in the support to manage or control the airspace, due to the foreseeable increase in its use in the future settings of land forces —helicopters, RPAS, Campaign Artillery, mortars, Anti-aircraft Artillery means —.

The use of A2/AD systems by the enemy will prevent to guarantee air superiority. That is why it will be necessary to have high performance DAA systems to reach, at least, equality. The new land forces will also need low and very low height Anti-aircraft Defence units depending on the setting.

The new trends in the news ways of combatting and technological development mark the DAA evolution to provide the best response in the new settings.

DAA IN BRIEX

BRIEX 2035 will have the capacity to form four anti-aircraft defence units, to support its combat groups and Brigade troops. With its means, it will contribute to the management of the airspace at the Brigade and Combat Group levels. It will be provided with weapon systems able to combat the whole spectrum of the threat, at a Combat Group level, at low and very-low height by missile dual systems (9-10 km / 6,000 m), cannon dual systems (5,000 m) and directed energy (5,000 m), electromagnetic interefence systems against RPAS, and combined cannon and missile systems.