BAE Systems core business areas is combat vehicles, terrain vehicles, artillery systems, intelligent munitions, distributed simulation and education.
ARCHER is an autonomous howitzer with high transportability, precision, crew safety, reliability and survivability which gives an entirely new type of indirect firing capacity in the battle field.
Tritech’s task was to develop a system for automatic collection of data, this information is then used to calculate the trajectory of the projectile.
RFID-transponders with sensors is used to extract the information from the charges.The system gives the howitzer an improved accuracy, it decreases the time to reload the magazines and also eliminates the source of error which is always present whenever the human factor is involved.
The project has included evaluation of technologies, development of hardware, software and mechanics
