DSaT (Deep Sensing and Targeting)

2024: Development of the Deep Sensing and Targeting system based on a transport aircraft

One of the main directions for the development of Western military thought in 2024 is the improvement of management, including by creating advanced means of data exchange to ensure continuous large-scale collection of information and its operational distribution.

One such development is the Deep Sensing and Targeting (DSAT) system from the military-industrial giant Northrop Grumman, which is a data center based on a transport aircraft. She was first tested during the fall two-week American exercise Vanguard 24.

DSAT receives information from numerous "sensors," especially commercial and military satellite constellations, and then processes and transmits it over the radio channel to operators on the ground. And the use of an air station avoids the restrictions of ground stations.

According to Northrop Grumman, the use of DSAT will allow you to quickly receive data on the location of targets and issue coordinates for the guidance of missile systems and artillery in a dynamically changing combat situation.

In fact, we are talking about both a further reduction in the time between detection and fire damage, and the formation of a single information field, where the calculation of an OTRK or howitzer can almost directly accept target designation from satellites, and in a short time.

The US attention to the topic is understandable: the introduction of such systems, where combat units can be controlled in real time literally as "units" in games, will be a breakthrough that will ensure technological superiority and will level the advantages of even experienced armies with significant firepower.