GlobalEye: increasing your operational availability
In modern conflict, situations develop rapidly, and your forces receiving accurate, timely intelligence is the key to mission success. Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems are airborne radar solutions used to detect and identify air, land and sea vehicles, missiles and other objects. AEW&C systems are also employed as battle management command and control centres, receiving and transmitting real-time information to achieve total situational awareness.
GlobalEye is Saab’s highly advanced, ultra-long range, multi-domain AEW&C solution that delivers increased operational availability by combining intelligent product design with effective support.
Enhancing your forward presence
GlobalEye delivers the highest operational availability for your forward presence, providing a suite of active and passive sensors that offer long-range detection and object classification. Able to seamlessly integrate with navy, army and air forces as well as civilian organisations, GlobalEye ensures awareness to everyone, wherever they are.
GlobalEye can detect, classify and track targets from afar, feeding back accurate, real-time information to key operational decision-makers.
Take complete control of the battlespace with GlobalEye’s all-domain battle management. GlobalEye can detect, classify and track targets from afar, feeding back accurate, real-time information to key operational decision-makers. The platform’s ability to simultaneously monitor the air, land and sea is unique, with forces usually needing multiple solutions to monitor all three domains at once. This newfound available resource can be reallocated to assist your forces elsewhere, with GlobalEye taking care of all surveillance tasks.
Saab understands that in the heat of an operation, things can change rapidly. As such, GlobalEye is able to switch tasks during ongoing missions to ensure the overall operation stays on track without having to land.
The implementation of GlobalEye enhances your forward operational ability by freeing up other defence assets, ensuring they’re only on high alert when needed. This keeps forces and equipment running smoothly by not exhausting resources in an unnecessary state of high readiness.
Ground-up integration
GlobalEye is built bespoke by Saab’s highly skilled in-house engineers to fit seamlessly into your existing operations. Whether you need it to work in tandem with your force’s fighters, or to assist other forces in joint operations, GlobalEye provides aerial surveillance and target detection wherever it’s necessary.
GlobalEye is designed to work in conditions affected by severe clutter and jamming, so even if the rest of your fleet goes blind, all is not lost. GlobalEye sees what is obscured.
Built with operational availability in mind
GlobalEye is the optimum size, balancing a vast array of cutting-edge onboard surveillance and communication technology with impressive range performance and a low cost per flight hour. With a flight time of over 11 hours and the range of its instruments surpassing 650 km, GlobalEye’s ultra-long range makes it ideal for special operations. The longer you can be in the air, the more dependable an asset you are to your force – that’s where GlobalEye’s operational availability sets it apart from the rest.
Its low lifecycle cost makes GlobalEye an incredibly cost-effective solution that can fulfil a variety of roles simultaneously whilst demanding fewer operational resources.
GlobalEye’s size also makes it economical to fly, and it can be serviced and maintained by a reduced crew. Its low lifecycle cost makes GlobalEye an incredibly cost-effective solution that can fulfil a variety of roles simultaneously whilst demanding fewer operational resources. This is where GlobalEye’s efficient support compliments its high-performance design.
The aircraft’s size also results in excellent airfield performance, as it can take off with 6,500 ft of runway and, with maximum landing weight, land at just 2300ft. Operationally, this makes GlobalEye a flexible choice with an increased number of potential take-off and landing locations.
For those onboard, the working conditions are ideal with state-of-the-art avionics enabling crews to work comfortably and ergonomically. This greatly reduces the impact of fatigue and discomfort on longer operations, maintaining high readiness. Crews can also operate effectively with the knowledge that they’re safe with GlobalEye’s built-in self-protection suite.
Rapid, accurate decision-making
Due to GlobalEye’s advanced surveillance and communications technology (including the powerful Erieye Extended Range (ER) radar), operational decisions can be made more quickly and accurately. Thanks to the ability to receive and transmit real-time information with greater precision, other operational forces can be primed, and missions can be executed at speed, giving them the winning edge in any scenario.
GlobalEye can cut decisively through confusing mixed messages with real-time, accurate information.
This is particularly beneficial when it comes to joint operations, as GlobalEye can cut decisively through confusing mixed messages with real-time, accurate information. GlobalEye has total situational overview and keeps everyone on the same page, ensuring mission success.
If required, GlobalEye can host an additional Joint Command element with up to 10 operational work positions on board. This enhances coordinated decision-making in theatre and in real time. This in turn speeds up the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Detect, Act), saving vital time, ensuring secure data exchange and reducing communication errors.
Cutting through the noise
Modern warfare is dependent on electronics. All electronics produce a signal, and the simultaneous use of countless electronic systems in the theatre of war creates massive interference, jamming communications. Further, enemies can weaponize jamming or spoofing capabilities to disrupt and disorientate. GlobalEye is designed to defend against these threats and cut through the noise, keeping your communications receiving and transmitting, always maintaining operational availability.
Through an ongoing “spiral” identifying objectives, performing risk analyses, developing and testing, and reviewing and evaluating, this process ensures the solution stays ahead of the competition.
Another issue associated with electronics is the need for intermittent software updates. Saab utilises the spiral development model for GlobalEye – a long-term process and refinement strategy that results in ever-evolving software. Through an ongoing “spiral” identifying objectives, performing risk analyses, developing and testing, and reviewing and evaluating, this process ensures the solution stays ahead of the competition. Software updates are straightforward and don’t require significant downtime. As a result, GlobalEye can be back up and operationally available as quickly as possible.
Adaptable for every operation
GlobalEye is equally at home working in peace, crisis or conflict, for the civilian market or the military. Global and national security challenges are ever-evolving and true situational awareness is the key to coming out on top, whatever the scenario may be.
All of Saab’s AEW&C solutions have been used successfully by national forces to monitor organised crime, illegal fishing, support in border control, secure international events among other as important applications. Their surveillance and communication capabilities give police and government agencies the full operational picture, enabling timely decisions to be made that involve multiple moving parts.
Whatever the purpose, wherever the operation, GlobalEye offers the greatest surveillance and communication capabilities the market has to offer, whilst keeping you operationally available with low flight and maintenance costs.
Whatever the purpose, wherever the operation, GlobalEye offers the greatest surveillance and communication capabilities the market has to offer, whilst keeping you operationally available with low flight and maintenance costs.
Intelligent design. Effective support. GlobalEye.