Research on Development of Foreign Airborne Mission Pods

Abstract

With the requirements that a type of platform can perform diversified combat tasks and the needs for cost control, the airborne mission pod is bound to play a more important role in future operations. Therefore, research is carried out on the reconnaissance and surveillance, target indication, electronic countermeasure and other multi type airborne mission pods carried by foreign manned and unmanned combat aircraft, and the mainstream models, technical characteristics, development ideas, development paths, and adaptive carriers of airborne mission pods are analyzed. It is found that the development of foreign pods has gone from based on aircraft platforms to independent of platforms, from customization to generalization, and data processing and information generation have gradually become intelligent and autonomous. Finally, the development trend of intelligent, generalization, modularity and system architecture opening of airborne mission pod in the future is summarized.

Keywords

• |airborne pod|reconnaissance and surveillance|target indication|ecm|modularity