sirius airborne sigint system

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SIRIUS
AIRBORNE SIGINT SYSTEM
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SIRIUS AIRBORNE SIGINT SYSTEM
SAAB AS A
SIGINT PROVIDER
SIRIUS AIRBORNE SIGINT SYSTEM
COMPLETE SOLUTION
Accurate information is crucial for decisions and
actions taken by a nation’s leadership. This requires
a comprehensive intelligence capability.
Saab SIRIUS Airborne SIGINT system provides the
means to keep pace with signal collection for
strategic intelligence as well as real time situation
awareness for tactical purposes.
The Saab SIRIUS Airborne SIGINT system is a
complete solution including airborne and ground
segments. The airborne segment contains advanced
COMINT and ELINT sensors which performs
signal collection, while the ground segment includes
mission planning and post-mission analysis.
•Full in-house competence to provide a complete SIGINT solution
•Supports both strategic and tactical missions
•Extensive track record in Electronic Warfare and SIGINT
•Independent supplier
•State-of-the-art technology
•Customer tailored solutions
•Flexible Support Solutions including In Service Support over the complete life cycle
•Integrated situation awareness picture
Operator’s HMI
•Fully user programmable libraries
•Analysis of collected data
•Reporting and dissemination to decision makers
ROLE BASED MISSIONS
The airborne segment makes use of flexible
operator workstations which allows the
operator roles to be adapted to mission
objectives. For instance this allows a mission
where COMINT is of high importance to
increase number of COMINT operators
on duty.
• Wideband and narrowband signal
acquisition with sophisticated filtering
mechanisms provides fully automatic
classification and collection/recording
of signals.
• Software Defined Intelligence Architecture (SDIA) with configurable demodulators and data decoders.
• Automatic recording of signals of interest triggered by pre-set criteria.
The ELINT sub-system uses state-of-the-art
equipment and includes:
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
MANUAL OPERATIONS
The operator allocates sensor resources
based on their roles. The operator tasks will be
co-ordinated by the mission commander using
a tasking and reporting system and the tasks
are monitored as the mission progresses.
The operator can perform real-time control
of the sensors and decide how the data in
the sensors shall be captured, processed,
recorded, and reported.
AUTOMATIC OPERATIONS
During the mission the SIGINT system
compiles a consolidated situational awareness picture, where the location of emitters
and identified platforms are presented on a
digital map together with the relationships
between them. The situation awareness
picture is used by the mission commander
to control any mission updates and is also
transferred to the ground segment for analysis and dissemination.
COMINT SUB-SYSTEM
The SIGINT system can operate automatically from directives set up during the mission
planning. This allows the operators to focus
on mission objectives supported by:
• Frequency search strategies.
• Automatic measurement of direction of
arrival and location fixing for radio transmissions including frequency spread
spectrum signals.
The COMINT sub-system utilizes state-ofthe-art equipment and includes:
• Ultra-fast wideband scanning digital
tuners for handling of burst communication signals and frequency spread
spectrum signals.
• Monitor/Intercept tuners consists of multiple wide and narrowband channels.
ELINT SUB-SYSTEM
• Steerable high gain ELINT antenna
which provides high sensitivity for
intercept of side-lobe emissions and low
probability of intercept (LPI) radars.
• Channelized digital receiver with wide
instantaneous bandwidth for high precision measurements.
• Automatic identification of emissions
using libraries.
• Detailed signal parameter extraction
capability.
LIBRARY GENERATION
The SIGINT system includes analysis tools
and emitter library generation tools for creating and maintaining libraries that are used
by the system. Library data can be imported
and exported to national SIGINT databases
using well defined interfaces. Emitter libraries
can be updated on-line during mission.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
ESM/ELINT FREQUENCY COVERAGE
0.5 TO 18 GHZ
ELINT RECORDING
INTRAPULSE I/Q, PULSE DESCRIPTORS, EMITTER TRACKS
COMINT FREQUENCY COVERAGE
2 TO 3000 MHZ
COMINT PROCESSING
DEMODULATION, DECODING AND ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL TRANSMISSION MODES
COMINT RECORDING
WIDE BAND RAW I/Q AND NARROW BAND INCLUDING VOICE RECORDING