A systems approach to stealth on the ground revisited

Kent E. Andersson; Hans Kariis; Gunnar Hult

doi:10.1117/12.2194844

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21 October 2015 A systems approach to stealth on the ground revisited

Kent E. Andersson, Hans Kariis, Gunnar Hult

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Proceedings Volume 9653, Target and Background Signatures; 965302 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2194844
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2015, Toulouse, France

Abstract

This new security development is expected to increase interest from Northern European states in supporting the development of conceptually new stealthy ground platforms, incorporating a decade of advances in technology and experiences from stealth platforms at sea and in the air. The scope of this case study is to draw experience from where we left off. At the end of the 1990s there was growing interest in stealth for combat vehicles in Sweden. An ambitious technology demonstrator project was launched. One of the outcomes was a proposed Systems Engineering process tailored for signature management presented to SPIE in 2002.(Olsson et.al, A systems approach…, Proc. SPIE 4718 ) The process was used for the Swedish/BAE Systems Hägglunds AB development of a multirole armored platform (The Swedish acronym is SEP). Before development was completed there was a change of procurement policy in Sweden from domestic development towards Governmental Off-The-Shelf, preceded by a Swedish Armed Forces change of focus from national defense only, towards expeditionary missions. Lessons learned, of value for future development, are presented. They are deduced from interviews of key-personnel, on the procurer and industry sides respectively, and from document reviews.

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Kent E. Andersson, Hans Kariis, and Gunnar Hult "A systems approach to stealth on the ground revisited", Proc. SPIE 9653, Target and Background Signatures, 965302 (21 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2194844

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