• Combat Management System (CMS)

  • Data Link & C5ISR

  • Weapons System

 

Combat Management Systems is a software intensive system which has to be flexible enough to operate in a complex naval battle environment.

A Combat Management Systems (CMS) has to perform the following key functions:

Situational Awareness, to be aware of battle environment at sea which includes surface, subsurface and air. This collected through sensors like radars, electro-optical systems and sonar.

Intelligence, convert the above information into actionable intelligence by interpretation, collation, evaluation thereby producing a common operational picture.

Planning and decision-making, this step helps the commander to rapidly make an actionable plan for decision-making and implementation, in rapidly changing complex battle environment.

Weapon system command and control, an effective NCMS will also direct weapon sensor and weapons to engage and destroy incoming threat.

The above functions are carried by the CMS through the crew, sensors and weapon systems. The whole system could be part of the network-centric warfare (NCW) where each system becomes a separate node with similar nodes on other vessels.

NCW concept is more autonomous than hierarchical. CMS is a software-intensive systems which has to be flexible enough to operate in a complex naval battle environment, electronically interact with other sub-systems an be interoperable with systems of vessels of own navy as well navies of friendly countries. It should be able to cope with mass information with minimum crews.