Today’s and tomorrow’s theaters of military action are and will be increasingly uncertain (little control over the environment, great geographical diversity), with means of detection and threats (ammunition, etc.) that are constantly rising.
There is thus a desire to put the human being, i.e., human safety, at the heart of military concerns. To do that, the VIRGA project is aimed at protecting troops and users upstream from today’s cumbersome solutions for preventing threats perforating the system.
The aim of VIRGA is to develop a comprehensive solution that meets the requirements of the stealth frequency spectrum in a mission scenario:
• Not detectable/visible at long range (12-22 km)
• Not recognizable at medium range (4-12 km)
• Not identifiable at the short range of engagement (<4 km)
VIRGA will thus include passive solutions (IR/Radar) to reduce the armored vehicle’s signature, but also active solutions making it possible to change the vehicle’s signature (thermal signals) and mislead the adversary at close distances (radar). These active solutions will be driven dynamically and intelligently through an AI-based analysis-and-detection system.
