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Designation – Detection – Surveillance - Countermeasures
Thanks to its expertise in laser and optronics, CILAS designs, manufactures and markets laser products and systems for defence and civilian and military security. The company participates in major French and foreign military programs.
Recently CILAS supplied NAMSA, the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency with 28th laser designation systems and more recently the company delivered 2 counter snipers systems to the Marine Corps Systems Command.
CILAS participates in the Tiger programme and provides the airborne eye-safe rangefinder of the weapon systems.
Designation
The DHY 307 ground laser target designator for laser guided weapons
The DHY 307 ground laser target designator allows “to illuminate” a target with a laser beam and guide weapons with a precision less than the meter. It has been successfully proven in guiding any types of laser-guided weapons: bombs, missiles and artillery shells.
Operational for many years, the CILAS DHY 307 has proven its efficiency during operations carried out by French and foreign forces, notably in Afghanistan.
Guided weapons offer the advantage of ensuring damage at first shooting, with an important probability to destroy the target, and thus tremendously reducing the quantity of ammunition. The fire precision dramatically reduces the collateral damages.
The DHY 307 laser designator makes it possible to guide either NATO and Russian or Chinese standard ammunitions, giving it maximum interoperability.
The low weight, low signature Ground Laser Target Designator (GLTD) is intended to be used by Forward Advance Controllers (FAC) and Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) as a stand alone device or mounted on a vehicle. It is flexible, fully programmable and can address any type of illumination code. Designed with a day/night vision, it allows automatic target acquisition.
CILAS has recently supplied an Armed Force with 28 DHY 307 laser designation systems via the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA). These systems will be used to provide targeting for laser-guided precision weapons such as smart bombs, semi-active shells and missiles.
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Detection
The SLD 500 counter snipers system
The SLD 500 counter snipers systems combines top of the art camera and laser technology to provide a reliable sensor for day/night detection. The SLD 500 builds on the SLD 400 counter snipers system, which was developed at the request of the French Armed Forces facing the threat of snipers in Sarajevo during the Balkan’s crisis.
Recently, CILAS has delivered two SLD 500 counter snipers systems to the US Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC). The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) intends to test in depth the capabilities of this system before using it to protect the US Forces engaged in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The system can detect and locate any kind of optical sight system before shooting. Not only it is capable of accurately pinpointing a threat, the system can also perform clear target identification using a high definition daylight camera or an infrared camera for night vision. The system has a remote broadcast unit, giving a real-time target location information to the forces in view of a rapid and appropriate action.
CILAS counter sniper system can be coupled to external sensors such as acoustic detectors, thermal camera, movement sensors and others depending of the needs.
It can be mounted on vehicle.
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UAV detection by active imaging
The French Délégation Générale pour l’Armement has just entrusted CILAS with the task of conducting a Prior Studies Programme concerning the possibility of detecting and tracking small airborne targets by means of a high-resolution active laser imaging system. The aim is to quantify the contribution this technology can make to detecting, tracking and identifying these new targets.
Remote biological agent detection system
The French Délégation Générale pour l’Armement has entrusted CILAS with the task of conducting a three–year Prior Studies Programme concerning the upgrading of a laser remote biological agent detection system.
The study consists in a new development phase of a demonstrator which ca be used to evaluate the operational function of remote detection of a biological threat in a representative environment. This study is part of the Perséide programme, the aim of which is to define means of protection against bacteriological and chemical threats by around 2015.
Detection
The DHY 322 laser counter-measures system
The DHY 322 laser countermeasures system protects sensitive sites and control centres against attacks from laser-guided weapons.
This system is specifically dedicated to avert terrorist attacks on control centres, strategic sites or other high-profile sites such as embassies and ministries, key industrial centres, oil rigs, refineries, seawater desalination plants or nuclear plants.
As soon as a hostile laser beam is detected, the DHY 322 creates a high-power laser spot which acts as a decoy by shifting the beam to an area in which the enemy projectile will not cause any damage. Thanks to its cutting-edge design, the DHY 322 is able to react in less than one second to an attack using laser-target designation, which is much faster than standard countermeasure defence systems. It was designed to counter the most recent laser-guided weapons which require just a few seconds of illumination prior to impact.
Based on its expertise in airborne lasers, CILAS carries out the initial study of the CESAM project launched by the DGA which is a self-protection system for military aircraft.
CILAS, expert in laser and optronics technologies, has developed, manufactured and marketed a wide range of products and systems for defence and civilian and military security, large-scale scientific laser programmes, and scientific and industrial instrumentation. With a turnover of 30 million euros, CILAS employs 200 people on four sites in France.
June, 2009
Press contact : Françoise Séguès
33 (0)2 38 64 40 01
33 (0)6 48 72 04 91
segues@cilas.com
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