Aselsan's future soldier
Increasing the holistic warfare capability of land task forces against today's changing and diversifying threats has been the primary goal of all modern armies. Soldier modernization projects are included in defense budgets, starting with leading armies. Soldier systems; Despite the technological difficulties, the weight burden and high costs it brings, it spreads rapidly on the battlefields and provides information superiority in the tactical field together with its combat management systems.
Aselsan is actively working under the NATO LCGDSS (Land Capability Group Dismounted Soldier Systems) group for more than 20 years on the development of dismounted ground power's command-control, lethality, survivability, mobility, survivability, situational awareness capabilities and the creation of joint operations infrastructures. As the representative of the industry ASELSAN supports related NATO studies.
There are significant developments in electronic equipment used for C4ISTAR (Command Control Communication Computer Intelligence Survillance Target Acqusition Reconnaissance), as well as new generation weapons, protective equipment and war suits used by the degraded task forces in the tactical field. In the field of "Soldier Systems" ASELSAN takes place with the CENKER system.
CENKER is an integrated military system designed with simplicity, simplicity and high automation criteria, using modern mobile and wearable technologies. CENKER is a system placed on the assault vest of the soldier by considering the balance of weight and ergonomics, and it meets the needs such as command control, communication, situational awareness, reconnaissance, surveillance and friend-enemy tracking to meet the operational needs of the land force serving at the front line. It can be used from single soldier level to team, squad/arm, team and company level. Monitoring friend-enemy location and status, sharing instant intelligence information, monitoring health and ammunition status, 3D terrain analysis, messaging, via map supported real-time tactical status screens to the leading on foot personnel in the land force (in addition to all soldiers whose authority is defined in the chain of command) and file/sketch/tactical drawing sharing etc. Many capabilities are provided. CENKER; It provides information superiority and tactical advantage in the field of operations by sharing instant data obtained from reconnaissance, surveillance and target detection systems and sniper detection system. Thanks to the situational awareness ability gained by sharing live videos obtained from tactical UAVs or portable thermal/night vision systems, dominance is achieved in the operational area.
CENKER integrates with fully or semi-autonomous unmanned land/air vehicles and brings the warfare capabilities provided by these vehicles to the front line land force. In addition, it contributes to the accurate and timely execution of the activities within the scope of the coordination of fire support by working in integration with the UAV/attack helicopters that provide close air support to the maneuvering units and the weapon systems that provide fire support such as mortars/cannons/howitzers.
CENKER has been developed as an adaptable platform with high automation capability. System; It can be updated in accordance with special missions (residential operations, night operations, search and rescue, reconnaissance-surveillance, fortification, medical, etc.) as well as task-specific portable / wearable equipment (Unmanned Systems, Electro-Optic units, Barcode / DataMatrix / RFID / NFC readers). , wireless units and sensors) and information systems (information and databases, servers, information systems). In the system, multi-level and task-specific changeable security policies are implemented.
The system, is planned to be included in the inventory of the Land Forces Command in 2021. Especially the Land Forces Commando units, the Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command (JÖAK), the Naval Forces Command. Field studies are continuing for the use and dissemination of the Amphibious Brigade and the Special Forces Command (Ö.K.K.).
CENKER Soldier System provides the highest added value to the soldiers fighting by multiplying their abilities with the equipment and other systems that they can work with in an integrated manner.
CENKER Soldier System primarily serves as an element of the command and control chain created by the Turkish Armed Forces with the "KOCATEPE Combat Management System" on the battlefield from the Corps level to the single soldier. In this way, a front-line squad commander can meet the needs of plan, mission, friend/enemy status, live intelligence information, fire support (such as armored or mechanized unit, close air support or mortar support), logistic support through the real-time tactical situation map that he can access. It brings military coordination to the highest level.
Wearable Sniper Detection System (GKNTS) is a wearable acoustic sensor system developed against sniper threat in the tactical field. This system, which detects the direction, position and caliber information of the enemy gunfire, can transfer the data it obtains to the CENKER soldier system. In this way, the information about the enemy shooter obtained from a single soldier in the squad is instantly transferred to other soldiers, alerting the threat and saving lives.
GEZGİN Electro Optic sensor system can detect the target image, position and distance under day and night mission conditions and transfer it directly to the CENKER Soldier System. Detected target information is automatically added to the tactical status screen and instantly transferred to all integrated units over the military command and control network. A possible need for fire support is transferred to the appropriate weapon system as quickly as possible by transmitting target information.
AYA Electro Optical Sight System provides thermal vision capability on the gun or mounted on a helmet under day and night duty conditions, and works in integration with the CENKER Soldier System. With the augmented reality technology on the AYA, iconographic symbols are added to the live image and information such as friend/enemy locations, important military elements, supply points, wounded evacuation points are presented. In this way, the situational and positional awareness of the combatant is increased.
CENKER Soldier System; EHKET uses Software Based Radio infrastructure. In this way, IP communication capability is provided with Frequency Hopping, Encrypted, new generation Wide or Narrowband Waveforms (NBWF, WBWF). CENKER Soldier System not only supports tactical military communication infrastructures, but also provides end-to-end encrypted service over commercial and public mobile communication networks such as 4G/LTE/ULAK.
CENKER Soldier System integrates with SAKA mini unmanned aerial vehicle and gains the ability to take and share live video images for Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Intelligence purposes. In case of need in the squad, live video service can be obtained with the SAKA mini UAV, which has a 2 km range and a 25-minute mission time, with low audio/visual traces, in the open/closed area. This information is shared in the squad over the CENKER system and tactical advantage against the enemy.
Thanks to CENKER, the Unmanned Teaming capability will be provided in order to receive the necessary Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Fire Support for the squad, integrating with the unmanned ground vehicles of the future.
In addition to Soldier Systems, Mobile Command and Control Systems, which use commercial communication infrastructures, are considered to create solutions for today's and future threats. In this area, ASELSAN GÜVERCİN System offers a scalable command control and information network solution in a central or distributed architecture, safe and suitable for many user structures, using commercial networks.
GÜVERCİN terminal units consist of a smart phone with a compacted Android operating system and a system consisting of applications, peripherals and sensors. Terminal units access GÜVERCIN application servers using commercial mobile communication networks such as 3G/4G or public mobile communication networks such as ULAK. GÜVERCİN server or terminal solutions can function centrally or distributed. GÜVERCİN can work on its own as well as integrate into existing Command and Control Systems through security compliance units.
GÜVERCİN offers video conferencing, voice communication, data communication, chat services and multimedia message sharing services.
GÜVERCİN software infrastructure enables unlimited number of mobile applications and capabilities to be brought into the system through a plug-in architecture. In this way, it is possible to integrate all kinds of weather/road conditions, navigation, logistics, ballistics, health, status/activity tracking, location-based services and appropriate hardware units and sensors.
Soldier systems aiming to increase the soldier's performance and fighting ability, and electro-optical, robotic and sensor capabilities working integrated with these systems will take place on the battlefields in the future as well as today. Communication, coordination, speed, accuracy, efficiency and intelligence superiority between the units on the battlefield bring success. Active Soldier Systems will be a force multiplier that increases holistic warfare capability for on foot task forces.
In the near future, thanks to 5G and augmented reality technologies, the interaction of Soldier Systems with command and control systems will be taken to the next level; The decision-making ability of the soldier will be increased by being supported by artificial intelligence and big data analysis algorithms working in tactical and central cloud infrastructures. ASELSAN continues to work within the framework of this purpose with the subcontractor ecosystem it works with and the R&D projects it carries out.
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