Innovation for Belgian Defence
An unoffical defence blog from an innovation point of view with a focus on Belgian Defence
YouTube Could be usefull once integrated in to a (less flashy) camouflage pattern.
More info in this paper from KU Leuven : Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
YouTube Important takeaways:
– Tesla considers LIDAR as a bad technology for self driving
– Tesla cars and the required neural networks for self driving are becoming very good because they collect a lot of data and can retrain the networks for all kind of exceptions. This is for Defence a enormous problem because we operate in a non structured world where very little structural data acquisition is being done… so even with the best hardware, we probably won’t be able to have self driving vehicles that can operate cross country and in the unusual conditions we find in operations.
High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (or Platform Stations) can provide surveillance and/or (much needed) bandwith for battlefield communications. and come in many shapes
for more info on military applications : HAPS White paper
Already chosen to become part of the Infanterist der Zukunft – Erweitertes System (IdZ-ES) for the German Army, this would greatly improve the “first shot hit rate” for our grenadiers.
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