Eurosatory 2024: W2MPIR and Topaz Systems Showcased in Paris

The Eurosatory international arms trade fair, happening between the 17th and 21st of June this year, has for many years been one of the best places for defence industry businesses to showcase their products. This event is attended by buyers from all around the world, motivated both by its size, but also the attractive location, the city of Paris. The Polish WB Group has been using this opportunity for years. This year the key emphasis in the marketing efforts has been placed on products that have been battle-tested (or that could be battle-tested) during the War in Ukraine.

Warmate Kamikaze drones and FlyEye UAVs are among the products that get most of the visitors« interest. However, they were not being showcased as standalone solutions, but as components of the W2MPIR system (Wielowarstwowy, Wielozadaniowy Modułowy Powietrzny Inteligentny Rój; Multi-Layer, Multi-Role, Modular, Aerial Smart Swarm). It is a solution that combines several WB Group’s products, including strike and reconnaissance UAVs (like Warmate 1, 2, 5, BSP-U, FlyEye, and FT-5), Silent Network system for secure communications, and one of the Topaz BMS iterations.

The WB Group made use of the opportunity offered by the event in Paris to show, that not only is Topaz a fire control suite (well-proven in Ukraine, along with Rak mortars and Krab gun-howitzers), but also that Topaz is a scalable, modular solution which can be freely configured for BMS purposes at different command levels, also making it possible to integrate several sensors and communications systems.

This has made it possible to develop five, specialist modules: Topaz Tactics (making it possible to create a tactical picture, with blue and red force tracking), Topaz Fires (used to control tube and rocket artillery systems), Topaz Recon (supporting reconnaissance efforts by fusing reconnaissance sensors), Topaz Strike (used to control strike UAVs), and Topaz Logistics (supporting the operations in the realm of logistics).

EyeQ system designed for the detection, identification, classification and tracking of targets has been premiered in Paris as well. WB Group has developed it for land and aerial platforms (including UAVs), to use AI for example, for the following purpose: to measure range based on camera images or to identify vehicles based on images stored in a database.

Another solution promoted by the WB Group at Eurosatory is the family of handheld Comp@n SDR-class radios. The Radmor S.A. company, belonging to the WB Group, has worked on the Comp@n radios since 2000. The solution presented in Paris was a proven one. It was tested, primarily, by the Polish Armed Forces.

These radios are software-defined which means that it is enough to change waveforms to entirely redefine the radio’s function to match a specific purpose. The software defines the purpose of the individual radios here. Thanks to the above, the Territorial Defence Forces can use the Comp@n radio with two waveforms, one for military communications, and one for cooperation with uniformed services, like the Police.

Although the key differences between the Comp@n family radios stem from the waveforms used, no difference can be spotted, when it comes to dimensions and weight. All types of Comp@n radios weigh less than 1 kilogram, with battery and antenna, and have a length of 220 mm, width of 86 mm, and are 44 mm thick. This makes the standardization process of other Comp@n-connected hardware easier (such as the vehicular adapters, also showcased at Eurosatory 2024).

Apart from Comp@n radios, other hand-held radios offered by the WB Group were showcased in Paris, including R3501 in its „soft SDR” variant, with frequency hopping, and R35010, promoted as the smallest mass manufactured military-grade radio in the world, integrated on the Rosomak APC for instance, as a kind of a portable intercom.