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How can you modernise Land vehicles to address increasingly complex and evolving threats and still maintain operational effectiveness?

While modernising land platforms has been a consistent theme in defence budgeting for decades now, Land Forces are facing an ever more evolving and complex threat landscape. Forces simply cannot afford to or wait to replace their existing land combat platforms and must embrace modernisation tactics in order to adapt existing platforms and plan for the next generation.

This step-change in approach to land platforms will also be an enabler for key technologies to develop and deploy: information advantage for open, more collaborative operating systems; autonomy for greater combat mass and lower cognitive burden; electric drive to enable greater mobility; advanced and stealth materials giving a competitive advantage and all underpinned by platform electrification technology.

The videos, graphics and reports below explore land modernisation in further detail – how it should be approached, the challenges and the expected development horizon. For further support on developing your modernisation roadmap, please contact our team today.

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Land Platform Modernisation

Discover our key capabilities and technologies, ensuring you maintain competitive advantage. Choose QinetiQ as your platform modernisation partner.

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Click below to view our interactive graphic, enabling you to select and rotate a tracked and wheeled military platform and choose our capabilities to find out more information, see a visual example of the technology and discover the operational benefits. Our technologies are platform agnostic and the tracked and wheeled vehicles used are representative examples.

The multi-faceted threat

The threat environment is more complex, sophisticated and unpredictable than ever before. Ageing platforms should not be a barrier to Land forces and must be enhanced and modernised to keep pace with evolving threats from peer adversaries. We are here as your modernisation partner, working with our ecosystem to transform existing platforms to meet capability demands and provide a significant operational advantage.

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Land modernisation

Capabilities

While there are many new technologies that could enhance the future performance of Land platforms; we have focussed on six key areas which will generate phenomenal impact to existing and future platforms.

Power
Electrified Platforms
Next generation power and energy technology is critical for enabling future power demands throughout the battlespace. As demand increases, it must be serviced by reliable, secure energy storage and delivery.
Vehicle Drive Technology
Vehicle Drive Technology
Enhanced Mobility
Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) – enabling a step change in tracked platform capability. There is mounting pressure on military forces to reduce greenhouse emissions and operate more sustainably.
Vehicle Drive Technology
Stealth
Improved Survivability
Vehicles must become stealthy to survive on today’s battlefield with ever more sophisticated threats. Addressing the evolving stealth challenge is critical in today's complex operational environments.
Focus on Stealth
Robotics
Increased Autonomy
Autonomy is key to unlocking new concepts of operation and increasing operational advantage. Robotic systems are particularly crucial when carrying out hazardous or otherwise labour intensive tasks.
Focus on Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Sensor Processing Data Fusion
Improved Situational Awareness
Sensing and associated processing forms a critical and fundamental component in almost all defence and security systems, and is a key enabling technology for autonomous systems.
Sensing Processing and Data Fusion
Laser
Enhanced Effectors
Directed energy systems have the potential to transform military approaches. Make the desirable practical through advanced power. Laser directed energy weapons deliver precision targeting.
Focus on Directed Energy Systems
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Capabilities

While there are many new technologies that could enhance the future performance of Land platforms; we have focussed on six key areas which will generate phenomenal impact to existing and future platforms.

deployment

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