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The future electro-optical pod is not only an essential means of target detection, search and tracking, weapon guidance, but also an important means of night navigation, fighter (missile) warning, and threat assessment. According to practical needs and technological advancements, it is required that the technical performance of the electro-optical pod be significantly improved, while also requiring it to be more compact, lightweight, and reliable

Matching of the operating distance of the electro-optical pod. Due to the requirements of military operations and the need to minimize collateral damage as much as possible, high-precision bombing is required, which requires that the effective range of both active and passive optoelectronic sensors must match the range of the weapons associated with them.

In terms of performance, replacing scanning type long wave infrared cameras with mid wave infrared staring focal plane array detectors.

Future integrated electro-optical pods will also use different types of complementary sensors to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of the system.

Characteristics of the future electro-optical pod

The recent development trend is unified optical axis, structural merging, data fusion, multi wavelength and multi band operation, and multi-target processing capability

①The optical system will develop towards the direction of optical axis integration

②Tracking and measuring television will develop towards full correlation, multi-target, and day night integration

③Infrared systems will develop towards multi spectrum, multi band, and multi array imaging

④The laser device will have multi wavelength recognition and multi-target processing capabilities

⑤Multi sensor detection system and comprehensive data fusion

⑥Application of closed-loop correction fire control principle

⑦The direction of system integration is the development direction of distributed aperture infrared systems