Skywatcher entered service with the Turkish army in 2001 as its first fully digital air defense system (...) the system has been upgraded constantly based on user feedback. (...) Skywatcher can produce a real-time air picture for assigning anti-aircraft weapons. The system consists of air defense command posts at the army, corps and brigade levels; interface units for long-, medium- and short-range air defense radars; and vehicles serving as interfaces to link the command posts to radar sites and weapons platforms. (...)
The system generates a real-time air picture for operators in the command post by displaying friendly and hostile forces and safe/unsafe air corridors on digital maps. Other screen images include status, availability and coverage data for sensors and weapons systems. A variety of analysis tools can be superimposed over the digital images and used to share data on the network. This information includes unit positions, operational status and equipment information. Matching appropriate weapons to specific targets can be done in an automatic, semi-automatic or manual mode.
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The Tasmus tactical area communications system serves as Skywatcher’s backbone. It carries voice, data and video traffic in a redundant and survivable infrastructure. By using distributed routing algorithms and flexible system architecture upgrades, Aselsan’s engineers have designed a network that can quickly respond to stress or sudden spikes in use. (...)
Tasmus has a high-bandwidth capability that links sensors and weapons into Skywatcher’s real-time data tracking capability.(...)
It has a network management and planning system called Syscon that uses International Telecommunications Union and NATO tactical communications system control protocols. The software architecture is designed along NATO multilevel security standards, and the system allows tactical data servers to connect to Tasmus, providing commanders with digital maps, geographic data, meteorological information, intelligence reports and logistics data. (...)
Skywatcher and Tasmus are two of several digital systems in the Turkish army. These include the Baiks and Baiks-2000 field artillery battery fire direction systems. Baiks is designed to provide fast and accurate ballistic calculations for a variety of artillery weapons, fire support coordination systems, digital message transfer applications and battery-level ammunition counts. Baiks-2000 is an updated version that increases an artillery battery’s firepower and first-hit capability.
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