Thales' wearable Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities device, which was showcased with end-users at the British Army's Army Warfighting Experiment 2024 in November. (Thales)
Thales, working with British troops at the Army Warfighting Experiment 2024 (AWE24) at the Salisbury Plain Training Area in November, successfully demonstrated a networked infantry squad able to identify a threat, share the information, and direct in a countermeasure.
Thales used its SquadNet soldier radios, an HFXL wideband high-frequency (HF) radio, and the Storm 2 personal Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) system to show how an infantry squad could use links to an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platform such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and how imagery and data shareable with other soldiers and headquarters (HQ) could facilitate threat detection and response.
Storm 2
The soldiers taking part used the Storm 2 system to identify data signals as they moved through an urban environment. Storm 2 is a wearable sensing and electronic warfare (EW) system carried by soldiers that can detect hostile networks, protect users against remote-controlled improvised explosive devices (RCIEDs), and conduct electronic attacks.
John Dix, UK sales manager for land communications in Thales secure communication and information systems (SCIS), told Janes in an interview on 21 November that for the first time end-user soldiers were able to “understand the spectrum that they're operating in…. So we did the sense, we identified a potential threat network, an adversary network, and then through this queuing back from HQ, we then conducted the [electronic jamming] attack [with the Storm 2 unit] on the Wi-Fi network”.
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