Sagem’s JIM LR
multifunction thermal imager: Combative & Innovative
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Sagem JIM LR with its remote video tactical teminal
IM LR is a multi-function handheld thermal imager with numerous integrated functions in one tactical and portable piece of equipment.Developed and produced by Sagem’s (Safran group), JIM LR is becoming a standard equipment in several military combat units, as well as for security applications and border surveillance. It includes visible and infrared vision, telemetry, a laser pointer, orientation, GPS and data transmission. Powered by Sagem’s highly efficient image processing software, the JIM LR is an information and action system in an ergonomic housing. It provides units in operations with the services expected to confront diverse missions and situations. Tactical, compact and very easy to use, JIM LR is a support for troops in all range of operational situations, in offensive or defensive actions, from peace keeping missions, protection of areas or borders, special air-ground operations, to combat in high intensity environments. For military forces in operations, JIM LR detects threats day and night, designates targets with metric precision in short-time loops, while gathering intelligence for the command level or contact units though tactical radio networks. Furthermore, it can be remotely controlled off the threats using
tactical portable terminals. As part of battlespace digitization, JIM LR is interoperable with C4ISR networks linked to effectors using precision weapons. In France, JIM LR is interoperable also with FELIN, the France’s soldier modernization system (for which Sagem is the prime contractor). To date, several hundred JIM LRs have been ordered and are in use by several NATO armies, including the French Army (850 units ordered), US, UK and Canada. Last October, its performance in protecting infrastructure was noted during the October 2009 NATO Belcoast demonstration in Belgium. JIM LR has been chosen for border protections by several European Union countries, most recently Bulgaria and Slovenia, demonstrating its effectiveness under difficult climatic conditions. This was a fine performance for JIM LR, a system manufactured in Sagem’s French factory with high-tech and high precision components from Vectronix, its Swiss subsidiary, including a magnetic compass, a laser and day optics. Sagem is drawing on the lessons learned from its use on the ground over the past two years to improve the services it renders, with a housing that is still as ergonomic, compact and light (3,3 kg with the battery). JIM LR in on dynamic demonstration on the Sagem stand at Defexpo 2010. SP
Artillery Systems:
When Sagem Sigma 30 is Rising to the Precision and Mobility Challenge
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he operational trends of modern artillery are clearly underlined by the gunners themselves: the need for high mobility, guns firing within a short notice in a “shoot and scoot” mode. Sagem, company of the Safran Group, has carefully addressed all these demanding requirements. Designed strait forwards for such specific Artillery constraints, Sagem’s Sigma 30 is a stateof-the-art hybrid inertial navigation and artillery pointing system using a digital RLG (Ring Laser Gyro) specially optimised for high accuracy pointing within a short notice in a high shock daily environment. It combines ruggedness, precision and flexible operation, such as alignment on the move without the need of a GPS. Sigma 30 covers a range of performance, addressing from the most demanding accuracies requested by MLR’s or 52 cal howitzers, down to humbler performance typical of 105mm light gun or mortars applications. In 2009, Sigma 30 became a worldwide reference in the European Artillery community illustrated by selections on the Swedish Archer, the German Donar and PZH 2000 upgrades, the Franco German MLRS upgrades, the French
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2R2M 120mm mortar. Sigma 30 is now fully qualified and in service with the French Army’s 155mm Caesar gun Mounted System. Supporting the troops in combat, Caesar fitted with this high accuracy Sigma 30 is now labelled “combat proven” in harsh thermal, mountainous and mobility environments. In India, in a cooperative project with the Ministry of Defence’s DRDO/ARDE, Sagem has delivered Sigma 30 to equip two PINAKA multiple rocket launchers regiments of the Indian Army. Moreover, in the frame of this programme, Sagem has achieved, in India and in France, the training of the Indian Army EME engineers to ensure “I” level repair of Sigma 30 in an army workshop. This workshop is already shaped to support more programs utilising Sigma 30, for instance the WLR counter battery radar or any ULH or 52. cal howitzer using Sigma 30. Sigma 30 also represents the core sensor of Uliss 30XP a new Positioning and Azimuth Determination System (PADS) designed for survey and topographic missions in replacement of aging systems in service in the Indian Army and difficult to maintain in condition. SP
The Sigma 30 on a 155 mm Caesar gun
Sigma 30 laser gyro pointing system is combat proven