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The Role of Camouflage in Modern Battlefield Survivability Prof Ian Horsfall MIMMM MIMechE CEng 15 th March 2016

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Page 1: The Role of Camouflage in Modern Battlefield …...Camouflage • Camouflage and survivability on the modern battlefield • The interaction of camouflage, signature reduction and

The Role of Camouflage in

Modern Battlefield Survivability

Prof Ian Horsfall MIMMM MIMechE CEng

15th March 2016

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Camouflage

• Camouflage and survivability on the modern battlefield

• The interaction of camouflage, signature reduction

and deception

• Defensive aids

• Disguise and deception examples

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Battlefield Scenarios

• High intensity warfare against a technically able adversary

– Avoid being detected

– Reduce all types of signature

• Visual, radar, IR, noise, dust

– Disrupt all stages of an engagement

• Detection, recognition, identification and analysis

• Low intensity, urban or asymmetric warfare– Avoid being hit

• Don’t identify the target

– Do not give away capability or gaps

– Control the EM environment

• Detect, jam, spoof and monitor potential IED firing signals

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DON’T BE KILLED

DON’T BE PENETRATED

Traditional camouflage, radar and IR

stealthDON’T BE SEEN

Signature Reduction, Deception

DON’T BE ACQUIRED

Defensive aides, Decoys,

Obscuration

DON’T BE HIT

The Survivability Onion

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Don’t be acquired

Johnson Criteria

Detection

8 pixels wide (JC=1)

There’s something there

Recognition

16 pixels wide (JC=4)

There’s a bike there

Identification

32 pixels wide (JC=8)

There’s a child on a bike

Each stage can be prevented or delayed

We may want to be seen, or be unable to prevent being seen

We can prevent later stages by signature reduction, jamming the signal or deceiving the viewer, we only need to make them hesitate

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Don’t be detected

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Don’t be detected

Standard skirts Extended skirts

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Don’t be acquired

Deception

Provide false targets

(and camouflage real ones)

Disguise orientation

Medium Mk A 1918

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DESTROYHard Kill DAS

Jamming and

spoofing (ECM)

Soft kill DASDISRUPT

What capability is fitted, what is the

targetDECEIVE

Situational awareness,

IED detection,

EavesdroppingDETECT

Counter Surveillance,

DazzleDETER

The Defensive Aids Onion

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Rhino

Defensive aids

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Antennas

Antennas visually give away position

They give away capability

Antennas individually are radar targets

Antennas become large contributors to the total structural RCS

Visual signature

Visual signature and capability

Capability and RCS

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Hiding antenna and reducing

their RCS

i. Redirect antenna/array. Passive -park the antenna in a non-specular back scattering direction. Active -steer a null in direction

ii. Screen the antenna or array as from other frequencies using FSSs

iii. Impedance load the antenna

iv. Radiate from novel materials

(i.) requires the antenna is effectively not in operation in direction of interest. (ii) is the most popular and widely used, (iii) and (iv) are receiving a lot of attention.

• A Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS)

can be used to hide an antenna

• FSS is a periodic surface

– a repeating pattern of elements

– passive or active

Sequentially rotated fractal dipole surface

Courtesy: Dr Ivor Morrow ([email protected])

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Low RCS Antennas and Arrays

• Current technologies

– narrowband (microstrip) antennas and arrays have active devices integrated, (pin diodes) with switchable load conditions

• Novel material media

– (gaseous plasma, magnetised ferrite) and non-linear semi-conductor transmission lines (based on PSiAn) provide negative index materials

• Advantages:

– Reduce electrical size of the antenna

– Easily reconfigurable

– Much reduced (switchable) RCS

• Disadvantages:

– Loading the antennas reduces radiation

efficiency

– Some residual structural RCSActive plasms antenna

Courtesy: Dr Ivor Morrow ([email protected])

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Summary

• Camouflage should consider a spectrum of approaches

• All that is needed is a momentary delay in the response from the

opposition

• Deception can be used to disguise the identity or intentions of the target

• Deception also means disguising capabilities or gaps in capabilities

• Numerous technologies exist which can be used to accomplish these

aims

Acknowledgements Dr Ivor Morrow [email protected] Daniel Clarke [email protected]