- إنضم
- 22 يونيو 2015
- المشاركات
- 174
- التفاعل
CVW02 FlexiS
A new way to deliverand sustain capability
CVW102 FLEXIS is a fully modular missile system to revolutionise capability,sustainment and technology enhancement.
FLEXIS harnesses years of MBDA research and development in a systemthat redefines adaptability and evolution.
Through technologies such as contactless interfaces and common busarchitectures, missile roles can quickly be modified to adapt to emergingscenarios. Standardised physical and functional architectures enable rapidupgrade of sub-system modules to maintain the technological edge.
Inter-missile communication and intelligent cooperation provides a systemthat maximises weapon efficiency and success in complex environments.An enhanced health management system ensures that all sub-systemmodules are maintained and available whenever they are needed.
The key issues that Flexis is targeting are: the need to have quantities of weapons in the locations they are needed for prolonged operations; maintaining a technological edge; and the uncertainty of future operations and whether they will be symmetrical or asymmetrical in nature.
Edward Dodwell, head of MBDA’s Concept Visions 2015 team, used the example of the carrier strike mission to illustrate the benefits of this concept, claiming that these operations are typically prolonged, but simultaneously quick reaction is required and the capability has to be readily available.
Flexis, he adds, is a more low cost approach, because only one baseline configuration cost is required, with lower cost variable packages for the missile added on top.
SRAAM "Short range air-to-air missile"
LRAAM "Long range air-to-air missile"
MID RANGE STRIKE
VSRAAM "Very Short range air-to-air missile"
ANTI ARMOUR
