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MBDA To Add Orchestrike AI to Spear Missiles
Artificial intelligence can enhance the performance of attacks by Spear missile swarms
MBDA Orchestrike
MBDA will test its Orchestrike collaborative weapons AI concept on its Spear family of missiles.

European weapons specialist MBDA has made considerable strides in developing its Orchestrike collaborative weapons artificial intelligence (AI) concept since its unveiling last year at the Paris Air Show. At Farnborough, the company has announced that it will initially be applied to its Spear family of precision strike weapons, and is demonstrating the new capability in a digital-twin simulator.

Spear weapons offer the advanced mission planning and long-range complex multi-weapon mission capabilities found in the latest heavy cruise missiles, but are packaged into a weapon that can be carried in significant numbers by multirole fighters. The F-35, for instance, can accommodate up to eight in its internal weapon bays. The Spear can strike moving targets in all weather and at long stand-off ranges, making it an ideal defense suppression weapon.

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