Land collaborative combat including air-land
Funds collaborative combat technology that lets land forces share a tactical picture and coordinate engagement across coalitions.
Land collaborative combat including air-land is a European Defence Fund (EDF) Development Action that funds collaborative combat technology letting land forces share a tactical picture and coordinate engagement across coalitions — shared tactical pictures, collaborative threat evaluation and weapon assignment, unmanned-system supervision including manned-unmanned teaming, and joint logistics, span…
This topic wants land-combat systems that mature existing collaborative functions and build new ones — shared tactical pictures, collaborative threat evaluation and weapon assignment, unmanned-system supervision including manned-unmanned teaming, and joint logistics — so multinational land forces can act faster than an adversary. It spans both purely land engagements and coordinated air-land operations.
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