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Indra’s Research Lab for Future Armored Vehicles

After developing the Maestre mission sys-
tem, to be integrated into the Spanish Army’s
8x8 Dragon armored wheeled vehicles and
tracked support vehicles (VACs), Indra is
now launching an advanced laboratory that
replicates the vehicle and an emulation op-
erating environment to work on the mission
systems that will be used by these state-of-
the-art armored vehicles.

The new laboratory will facilitate not only
the development and evolution of the soft-
ware of these systems, but also training, 4.0
maintenance and tests to study how the
vehicle behaves in different configurations,
as well as incorporating new sensors and
the analysis of their interoperability with
other systems. Indra, Vigara Zaera, said that “with this the crew so that they can make decisions

It has working positions that allow to man- laboratory and the work we have quickly and react to any situation. It is the
key element for vehicle safety, survivability,
age the mission system as the driver, vehicle conducted in recent years with fire effectiveness and collaborative combat
commander, gunner and embarked platoon the Ministry of Defence, we are capability.
would do.
globally at the forefront in the The 8x8 mission system is one of the key
These positions have been designed so they digitization of military vehicles”. pieces for the digitalization of the Army,
can also be installed in transportable con- which will facilitate the incorporation of
tainers or shelters determined by the army. ground platforms in the future Digital
Tailor-made for Spain Combat Brigade and its integration in the
The company has already shown these facil- combat cloud scenarios and the future
ities to Spanish Army authorities, including Indra’s Maestre system controls the weap- Spanish Army Logistics Base (BLET).
the visit of Lieutenant General Fernando ons, warning, self-protection, situational
Miguel García y García de las Hijas, Chief awareness, communications and navigation Indra is not only implementing this tech-
of the Army’s Logistics Support Command, systems, as well as the battlefield manage- nology in the new generation of Spanish
together with other Army officers and other ment system (BMS) and, broadly speaking, armored vehicles, but has also taken on a
officials from the DGAM’s program sub-di- all subsystems carried by the 8x8 and the key role in European R&D projects such as
rectorate, a company official said. tracked support vehicle (CSV). It is the brain Famous I and II, Commands and MARTE,
that processes all the information collected which are working on the next generation
and presents it in an integrated picture to of such systems.
The head of Ground Mission Systems at

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