Air Weapons: Smaller, Smarter, Faster And Lethal
December 1, 2022:
In 2021 Israel introduced Legion-X, an autonomous mission management system for swarms in the air (UAVs), sea (ASVs) or land (mobile or stationary units). Legion-X enables the operator to define which sensors (stationary or on vehicles) will be used for the task of observing an area with software to quickly analyze the data and report on who is doing what in near real-time.
Legion-X was first used in 2021 over Gaza to accurately locate where rockets aimed at southern Israel were being fired from. This made it possible to quickly and accurately use airstrikes, helicopter gunships or artillery to hit these locations. Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired about 4,400 rockets over 12 days. While 16 percent of the rockets were defective and landed in Gaza, the rest had to be handled by the Iron Dome air defense systems, which intercepted 90 percent of the rockets headed for occupied areas. The Legion-X UAV swarm used camera equipped quad-copters operating in groups (swarms) to quickly spot positions where rockets were launched from. Legion-X software took that information and supplied it to the air force and artillery units best able to quickly attack these firing positions, which often fired several rockets before the crews moved to avoid return fire. Legion-X software made it possible to hit these firing locations quickly enough to prevent more than one or two rockets being launched from that position.
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