Onko kukaan sattumoisin lukenut mitään tarkempia selvityksiä F-35:n pilotin työkuormasta ja eri toimintojen automatisoinnista? Kone hallinnee jotkin asiat paremmin kuin ihminen, esimerkiksi kohtitulevan ohjuksen väistön. Mahtaako olla tulossa, jos ei automatisointia, niin edes koneen suositukset toiminnasta, "Break left, break left"?
Tarkoitus ei ole käynnistää väittelyä miehitetyistä ja miehittämättömistä ilma-aluksista. Ihmisellä on vielä pitkään rooli kokonaisuuden hallitsijana, mutta jotkin osa-alueet voisi olla parempi jättää koneen varaan.
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“The airplanes that are coming off the line right now have this capability. Although it’s not in its final form, it will get better and better with each block of the software.”
We are getting closer to a software-defined airplane.
Advanced fusion does three things for the pilot.
- First, it assembles a single integrated picture from all of the sensors.
- Second,it tasks the sensors to fill in missing data
- Third, it shares the information with everyone else on the network.
This is where fusion synergy really comes into play: all the F-35 pilots in the battlespace see the same picture.
Envision the following scenario.
An enemy pilot effectively neutralizes sensor A from one F-35 in a formation of several. The likelihood that enemy will be able to do the same to another F-35 in the same formation is slim to none.
It is extremely difficult for the enemy to defeat multiple sensors on multiple F-35s simultaneously.
Because the sensors between the F-35s are fused, the pilot in aircraft #1 can simply tap in to aircraft #2’s sensor suite.
Let’s look at the F-35’s sensor suite in more detail and remember each sensor is connected and controlled by an advanced fusion software engine, which results in more than the sum of the parts.
There is an intersection of the two sensors however. Where they’re both looking through the same angular volume of space, fusion will work them synergistically, and they can queue each other.
Fusion really does the queuing. As soon as one sensor detects something, fusion then queues every other sensor to look along that line of sight and try to find information about the track.
The impressive thing is that this occurs without pilot involvement.
When fusion recognizes a DAS track is in the same angular space as the radar it will indicate to the Radar: “Radar, go look along this line of sight and get range on this track that DAS found.”
Or if the radar has a track and it gimbals, or in other words, the track goes beyond the radar’s field of regard, fusion will tell DAS, “You keep updating this and hold onto the track for the pilot until it comes back into the field of regard of the radar or comes back into the field of regard of some other sensor on the airplane,” according to Skaff.
It is this synergy of the sensors onboard the airplane and the fact that the fusion engine is doing this for the pilot which results in a manageable cockpit workload.
”The DAS performs a number of functions. It does short range situation awareness infrared search and track (IRST). For the pilot, the days of someone sneaking up on him are almost gone. In clear air, it can detect and track other airplanes by their thermal signature.It also does missile launch detection, which is its primary function. It’s tuned to a spectrum such that it can see rocket motors. If it detects a launch, it will say, “Launch, right 2:00 low,” according to Dr. Skaff.
(Note:the systems really do annunciate this message to the pilot).
In this instance, fusion will place a symbol on the helmet visor around the missile and the launch point. Pilots often say: “If I can see the missile, I can defeat it.” With a symbol in the helmet-mounted display the pilot will know there’s a missile inside the symbol even if he can’t see the missile with the naked eye.
The other function DAS performs is called GTL, ground target launch. This is the ability of fusion to extrapolate the DAS missile track back to the ground. Fusion places a symbol on the head down display at the point of origin.
This is a tremendous capability for the pilot and especially for other F-35 pilots in battlespace.
Fusion will automatically place the GTL symbol on all of our displays so that we can avoid the launch site.
The last function DAS does is imaging. This is a fall-out capability, which allows the pilot to look through the DAS cameras.
Each of the cameras is seamlessly stitched together to present the full sphere of imagery for pilot use. The pilot can look straight down through the airplane or look anywhere throughout this sphere even on the darkest of nights.
