Air and Missile Defense Under Spatial Grasp Technology

High-level networking model and technology suitable for effective management of large distributed dynamic air and missile defense systems will be described which can cope with different kinds of unpredictable and asymmetric situations including massive air and missile attacks. Using this Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT), intelligent distributed command and control infrastructures, as demonstrated in detail, can be dynamically set up throughout distributed forces, which can keep global awareness and control, collect and disseminate information on multiple threats and targets, and organize their needed impact. SGT can effectively withstand cruise missiles using highly organized distributed sensor networks, where individual sensors may be cheap, ground or low-flying, in contrast to the existing expensive high-altitude planes, drones and aerostats, or casual top mountain solutions. Multiple cruise missiles can be grasped by individual mobile intelligence following their physical move electronically via sensor network, not allowing them to escape despite tricky routes, due to holistic sensor network organization behaving as an integral spatial brain covering any area. For the European type missile defense, it can provide flexible C2 allowing us to grasp multiple incoming missiles in parallel, and lead each missile individually through such stages as their infrared satellite pick up, relaying to sensors and weapons, supporting missile tracking by long-range sensors, and choosing upper or lower-layer available shooters. Due to freely moving intelligent scenarios, not connected in advance to particular physical resources, the whole system can work after indiscriminate failures or damages of any components, with their self-recovery or runtime substitution, always preserving the overall functionality. Another described scenario will be dealing with collective behavior of unmanned vehicles including situation where organized swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in SGT is fighting another manned, unmanned or mixed swarm fully autonomously and without external control.