Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled HYPNOSIS, an advanced navigation warfare system designed to counter a wide range of airborne threats, including large drone swarms, by disrupting their satellite-based navigation systems.
Global Navigation Satellite Systems, or GNSS, provide aircraft with the positioning and timing data they need to reach their destinations accurately. When those systems are jammed or otherwise disabled, hostile aircraft may lose their ability to navigate precisely toward their intended targets.
Video: The HYPNOSIS system. Credit: Courtesy of Israel Aerospace Industries
How does the new system work?
HYPNOSIS uses advanced jamming and spoofing capabilities to disrupt or deceive satellite navigation systems. It combines several networked field units under a single command-and-control center, providing protection for critical assets and infrastructure, including strategic sites, energy facilities and air defense systems.
The system operates through a unified command-and-control architecture that can integrate soft-kill capabilities, such as electronic disruption, with hard-kill systems that physically intercept and destroy threats. This enables a coordinated and effective response in dynamic and evolving threat environments.
HYPNOSIS can counter coordinated attacks involving large numbers of threats approaching simultaneously from multiple directions. A networked command-and-control center allows the system to operate fully autonomously, without the need for operator intervention.
The system draws on IAI's experience in navigation warfare, or NAVWAR, and incorporates advanced technologies for jamming and spoofing GNSS signals, including those used by sophisticated satellite navigation systems.
