Sceptre™ Mission planning and de-brief for the next generation

Author

David Coates

Published

28 March 2023

Business Air

Sceptre is the next generation mission planning and debrief system which delivers a competitive edge for all operators in the battlespace. It provides operators with the latest information enabling airborne and ground environment operations with the highest situational awareness to achieve mission success. Sceptre is designed to support live and synthetic missions allowing an integrated approach to operational mission support, providing commanders with immediate and secure command and control, allowing timely influence over the battlespace. It supports the full mission planning cycle – plan, brief, rehearse, execute and debrief – and synchronises information from multiple platforms, for replay of the entire mission.

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What is Sceptre™?

Cost effective

Sceptre™ is a mature product developed alongside RAF test and evaluation teams and our experienced aircrew and engineering teams, enabled to harness future capability and technological advances.

Its commercial off-the-shelf hardware infrastructure enables it to be rapidly updated to meet the latest operational needs in a cost effective way.

The modular design of Sceptre™ allows for its use on fast jet, multi-engine and rotary fleets, providing with a single mission planning and debrief tool.

Operationally ready

Already in service with fast jet fleets across the globe, Sceptre™ is proven on operations acting as an interoperable central system to distribute intelligence and data whilst maintaining a standalone capability for resilience with remote operations.

Its selection by a number of leading global air forces provides a strong backbone for joint operations delivering a tangible information advantage over adversaries and greater opportunities for further development.

The software

Sceptre™’s advanced mission planning software enables it to generate three-dimensional views of selected airspace which can be overlayed with flight data able to be updated to deliver complete situational awareness. This enables able to make better, more informed, decisions to achieve mission success. Sceptre™ helps the operator create a tactically astute plan, holistically reviewed, catering for conflicts and contingencies.

Key features

Sceptre™ combines three-dimensional in cockpit views, representation of digital aeronautical flight information, potential hazards and conflict detection with real time weather information, an intelligence picture and fast jet performance data. In mission planning, it allows operators to merge the real world and synthetic views from the aircraft recording media into an integrated replay format. In debriefing, Sceptre™ is able to replay aircraft position and weapons data alongside cockpit video to analyse the mission, enabling operators to feed learning back in to planning for future missions.