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