"... a contract (was) placed, and the system deployed within a matter of months. It made its first successful detection almost immediately."
UK Minister of State for Defence Procurement, Mr. James Arbuthnot, speaking in 1996.
The world's leading acoustic locator of guns and mortars on the battlefield.
Developed by Roke in just 6 months in response to a UOR, HALO®, is a flexible, adaptive system for determining the position of guns, mortars and shell bursts on the battlefield using state of the art acoustic signal processing techniques.
As a passive system, HALO® identifies hostile weapon locations without giving away its position - a significant benefit over radar based systems. This also means the opposing forces cannot detect that they are being monitored, which is advantageous in politically sensitive situations.
HALO® is now sold worldwide in partnership with Selex Galileo.
HALO®
Hostile Artillery Locator datasheet
- Detects gun breaks and impacts from artillery guns, mortars, tanks, heavy cannons, explosions of mines, bombs and improvised explosive devices
- Continuous, all-weather monitoring
- Highly accurate - typically 1% of range at 15Km
- Passive and covert
- Low-cost, lightweight, rugged, fast to deploy and easy to use
- Monitors activity over a very large area - typically over two thousand squared kilometres
- Provides 360 degrees coverage
- Requires minimal manning
- Expandable - uses many distributed sensors. System will continue to locate even if some sensors are damaged
- Does not saturate and locates multiple simultaneous firing locations
- Operates effectively in extremes of terrain and climate
- Is a standalone target acquisition system which can alert and cue radar and other systems
- Easily integrated into digital command and control systems
Although HALO® was originally developed for computing the position of guns, mortars and shell bursts, it can also be used as a battlefield-wide system for collecting acoustic signals from many sources to generate a valuable picture of the battlefield in the acoustic domain.
Deployments
- HALO was first used by the British Army in Bosnia in 1994.
- Kosovo and Yugoslavia
- Iraq
Users
 
 Helping the British Army Keep the Peace |
| Customer |
British Army |
| Challenge |
To provide peace keeping operations with the capability to detect any ceasefire violation. |
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| Approach |
Our world class expertise in acoustics enabled us to deliver an operational solution called 'HALO' (Hostile Artillery Locator) with the ability to detect any hostile fire up to 30km away. |
| Benefits |
HALO provided the British Army with a cost effective, flexible system that could be used 24 hours a day in all weather conditions, in any location developed and delivered within just six months. |
Any enquiries relating to direct purchase of HALO® systems should be directed to SELEX Galileo.
For enquiries about how Roke can help with advanced battlefield systems and products please contact us.
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