Rattlesnaq is an advanced software-based decision support system designed to enhance situational awareness for fighter pilots. It improves the efficiency, survivability, and lethality of airborne assets by continuously simulating enemy platforms, weapons, and sensors within the aircraft’s battlespace.
The system provides pilots with a live threat level picture, offering real-time insights into battlefield threats and opportunities. This enables pilots to navigate safely while optimising their approach to enemy targets without increasing operational risks.
Beyond enhancing pilot situational awareness, Rattlesnaq also supports Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) and Loyal Wingman assets. The software supplies tactical data to both manned and unmanned aircraft, ensuring safe and coordinated operations in complex air combat scenarios.
By calculating threat levels and transmitting relevant data to autonomous flight control systems, Rattlesnaq allows unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to operate in formation. This ensures optimal threat avoidance and mission execution while reducing the cognitive load on the lead pilot.
The system has demonstrated its effectiveness in trials with 4th and 5th generation NATO air force fleets. Mikael Grev, Founder and CEO of Avioniq, highlighted the significance of the technology in modern air combat.
“In combat operations, pilots are making thousands of decisions on how to complete their mission successfully, and learning to do that effectively requires hundreds of flight hours in the cockpit,” said Grev. “Rattlesnaq offloads the lower-level decisions from the pilot’s cognitive burden, allowing them to focus on the mission itself rather than how to achieve it. This provides vastly improved conditions for mission success—and offers a compelling solution for the force multiplying opportunities of future combat CCA operational concepts.”
