Rohde & Schwarz’s shipborne multi-channel communications intelligence system (COMINT system) can enhance the situational awareness of naval ships and expand the ship’s reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities.
The navies of all countries in the world need to face the challenges of diversified tasks. In addition to traditional military tasks, new tasks include anti-terrorism, combating piracy, combating smuggling, and combating organized crime at sea. With the increasing number of asymmetric wars and peacekeeping missions in the open and offshore waters, ships need to have the ability to complete diverse tasks. To adapt to this new situation, the Navy needs to use personnel and equipment more flexibly.
The COMINT system provided by Rohde & Schwarz can improve the combat effectiveness and battlefield survivability of a single ship and the entire fleet. The system can enhance the warship’s early warning capability and situational awareness. Through the intercepted communication information, the system can also effectively provide intelligence support and danger warning for specific tasks (such as the Marine Corps carrying out hostage rescue missions for disembarking and landing). The system collects valuable information to provide fleet-wide intelligence.
Shipborne multi-channel communication intelligence system can set automatic detection and monitoring tasks. As a highly integrated monitoring, direction finding and analysis system, the system can automatically process fixed frequency signals, frequency hopping signals and various HF/VHF/UHF radio communication signals.
The system can automatically detect, identify, demodulate and decode signals, and display the processing results in real time. It can record demodulated digital audio or record signal digital intermediate frequency. The system can prompt the operator to deal with enemy signals and unknown signals, and can automatically update the regional situation map based on the monitoring results.
Rohde & Schwarz’s shipboard multi-channel communication intelligence system can detect and monitor communication activities in the HF/VHF/UHF frequency band. The system can display the direction of the target radiation source and the geographic location of the radiation source on the electronic map.
The broadband receiver equipped with the system has a digital down-conversion function, which can realize the parallel monitoring of multiple signals. The signal processing functions of the system include intercepting analog voice signals, demodulating and decoding digital signals, automatic signal recognition and restoring communication content. The system can also record and playback signals.
The open architecture of the system allows users to customize decoders and provides corresponding tools to assist users in developing custom decoders. The system also has the functions of data output and third-party data import.
Rohde & Schwarz’s shipboard multi-channel communication intelligence system contains a database for processing various intercepted information. The intelligent algorithm of the database can match the newly received intercepted data with the parameters of known radiation sources in the database, so as to realize the function of identifying the communication network and updating the regional situation picture.
Bosco Novak, Executive Vice President of Rohde & Schwarz’s Monitoring and Network Testing Department, explained: “The shipborne multi-channel communication intelligence system provided by Rohde & Schwarz can be used as an independent system or as a subsystem and Deep integration and collaboration with other subsystems.”
