Electronic Warfare

ATDI's flagship military product, HTZ warfare,is a sophisticated communications Electronic Warfare planning tool for all technologies operating in the VHF band and above. ATDI has sold electronic warfare tools to a number of Armed Forces and Government Agencies of countries in Europe and other parts of the world. The system is used as a stand alone planner, or as part of a larger system, including direction finders, intercept receivers, jamming systems and RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles). The system can be used on a laptop PC and can be interfaced directly to a GPS system to provide positioning information.

The HTZ warfare system is used as a desktop planning system for a wide range of communications infrastructure projects, including:

• Military police network planning and optimisation
• Training area communications planning
• Exercise communications
• Safety communications for weapons firing ranges
• Fixed microwave network planning and optimisation
• Fixed VHF communications, including emergency systems following all out war
• Convoy protection planning, both for humanitarian operations and domestic convoys involving VIPs or special weapons
• Event communications, such as air displays, open days and ceremonial
• Planning and optimisation of ground to air communications such as air traffic systems
• Planning and optimisation of automatic direction finding systems for lost aircraft or aircraft in distress

Infrastructure and tactical with HTZ warfare

The HTZ warfare system is a comprehensive planning package for a wide range of scenarios. For tactical and infrastructure networks, HTZ warfare nG can provide the following capabilities (the list is only an indication of the main features and is by no means exclusive):

• The ability to analyse operating terrain and to manipulate three dimensional images of the battlefield from any angle.
• The ability to examine links between communications assets and assess the performance of the link in detail. All simulations are based on proven, accurate simulation methods.
• The ability to move individual sites and analyse communications capability virtually instantly.
• The ability to assess the impact of communication site failure on the overall network so that contingency planning can be included as part of the normal system design process.
• The ability to quickly assess the risk of interception or jamming by known enemy electronic warfare assets.
• The ability to identify network capabilities for moving elements such as convoys moving through hostile territory. Suitable locations for talk-through sites can be quickly identified.
• The ability to analyse operating terrain and to manipulate 3D images of the battlefield from any angle.
• The ability to design complete communications networks, including the ability to minimise interference, assign frequencies and generate alternate communications plans.
• The electronic warfare aspects of communications planning can also be included by analysing intercept vulnerability, identifying the possible effects of enemy jamming and developing plans to overcome these factors.
• "Quick look" analyses which allow the planner to change any aspect of a network and view the effect virtually instantaneously. This includes the ability to quickly assess the effect of failure or enemy action on the network. This helps planning for survivability.
• The ability to plan for the deployment of intercept receivers, including intercept coverage assessment and gap identification, maximising the efficiency of deployed sensors or minimisation of assets assigned to a given objective, planning communications between intercept units and central analysis cells and providing the planner with the tools required to plan an evolving network which can move with the operation.
• The tools needed to plan direction finder deployments, with best site searching, DF baseline coverage assessment and communications planning between assets. The system can be integrated with DF systems so that DF hits can be displayed directly on the planner's screen.
• Tools for the planning of offensive communications jamming missions, including asset optimisation, communications planning and assessments of jamming effects on own communications systems.
• The ability to determine the vulnerable points in known enemy communications systems, and to prioritise targets for attack.