MBDA highlights Orchestrike AI progress for Spear missile salvos
Published on July 21, 2024
MBDA is on target to add an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven collaborative capability to its precision-guided weapons range, and has named the developmental Spear missile as the first to benefit.
The European company says its Orchestrike technology – being demonstrated in a simulator at the Farnborough air show – “has rapidly developed from concept towards capability in 12 months”. It first disclosed the development activity at Le Bourget in June 2023.
Previewed to journalists at the company’s Stevenage site in Hertfordshire on 15 July, the tactical scenario being showcased involves a “digital-twin simulator featuring real missile AI [and] hardware, including new network-enabled datalinks”, it says.