MBDA Orchestrike: Collaborative

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At the Paris Air Show 2023, MBDA unveiled Orchestrike. Collaborative combat effectors will form an essential part of future weapons systems to defeat evermore complex threats. Building on its renowned experience in delivering cutting-edge missiles systems, MBDA presents Orchestrike a unique set of advanced innovations that will turn collaborative combat effectors into reality. From digital engineering to system integration, MBDA’s excellence stands by your side in delivering a new force multiplier.

Video: MBDA Orchestrike – Collaborative Combat Effectors

At the Paris Air Show 2023, MBDA unveiled Orchestrike: A solution consisting in collaborative combat effectors. 

Orchestrike brings three major collaborative combat innovations: 

• Avoidance of enemy air defenses, 
• Collaborative targeting and 
• Intelligent re-targeting.

Xavier Vavasseur  23 Jun 2023

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Building on its renowned experience in delivering cutting-edge missiles systems, MBDA presents Orchestrike, a unique set of advanced innovations that will turn collaborative combat effectors into reality.
With Orchestrike, MBDA’s next generation effectors (such as remote carriers, smart gliders and even the Franco-British Future Cruise / Anti-Ship Weapon or FC/ASW) will be able to share battlespace information throughout their flight to target. With this shared data,

MBDA smartgliders, remote carriers and FC/ASW missiles on display during the Paris Air Show 2023.

According to Paul Houot, Product Line Executive, Tactical Strike weapons at MBDA, “Orchestrike is a solution that MBDA is developing to allow collaboration between effectors”.

“Orchestrike will allow the effectors to react in real time to the evolution of the tactical situation. It will do so through connectivity but also through their collective intelligence. These effectors include cruisers such as SPEAR or smart weapons but also the remote carriers that MBDA is developing. They will work together towards their mission success.”

Paul Houot, Product Line Executive, Tactical Strike weapons

AI fitted aboard each missiles will allow them to coordinate their actions within the group in order to more effectively avoid or penetrate enemy air systems, increasing their chances of destroy their target. This can be achieved for example by flying in very close formation in order to appear as a single plot on enemy radars.

The Orchestrike AI will also allow the missile to autonomously strike high value targets in priority and re-allocate target priorities should new high value targets be detected while in flight.

Orchestrike simulation on MBDA stand at Paris Air Show 2023.

MBDA showed Naval News an Orchestrike demonstration consisting in a trike of several long range effectors against an enemy airfield protected by several long and short range air defense systems. Thanks to the Orchestrike technology, the missiles were able to:

• Estimate the most appropriate path to target (granting the highest survival rate)
• Adapt their flight formation accordingly (spread out swarm or very close flight formation to appear as a single missile)
• Update their target list based on high value targets at the objective and based on the loss within the missile swarm

This demonstration was not a movie or pre-recorded scenario but a true simulation running from MBDA’s technology demonstrator with fully operational algorithms.

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