WARSAW / SYDNEY — Australian navigation technology manufacturer Advanced Navigation has secured an $18.5 million contract to supply its Boreas Digital Fiber-Optic Gyroscope (DFOG) Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for Kongsberg’s PROTECTOR counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) platforms bound for Poland.
The integration forms a critical component of Poland’s SAN C-UAS program—a $1.5 billion (NOK 16 billion) initiative contracted between Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, state-owned defense group Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), and Advanced Protection Systems (APS). Under the program, Poland is acquiring 18 C-UAS batteries (comprising 52 firing platoons and over 700 vehicles) equipped with 35mm, 30mm, and 12.7mm kinetic effectors, guided rockets, and interceptor drones mounted on PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Stations (RWS) and Medium Caliber Turrets (MCT30).
By integrating hundreds of Boreas D90 FOG-based navigation units, Kongsberg’s weapon stations and sensor turrets gain high-precision, continuous position, orientation, and heading tracking without relying on satellite navigation. This capability ensures that Polish anti-drone batteries maintain full target acquisition, tracking, and weapons-cueing capabilities even when operating under heavy electronic warfare, high-latitude GPS jamming, and GNSS spoofing.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: ADVANCED NAVIGATION BOREAS D90 INS & SAN C-UAS INTEGRATION
* System Type: Ruggedized Digital Fiber-Optic Gyroscope (DFOG) Inertial Navigation System (INS) with closed-loop accelerometer technology.
* Primary Function: Autonomous, GPS-denied tactical navigation, north-seeking gyrocompassing, and precision target/weapon orientation.
* Gyrocompass Coarse Alignment: Fast-alignment north-seeking algorithm acquires precise heading within 2 minutes without relying on GNSS or magnetometers.
* Heading Accuracy: 0.01° secant latitude RMS.
* Roll & Pitch Accuracy: 0.005°.
* Gyroscope Bias Instability: 0.001°/hr.
* Sensor Fusion Architecture: AI-driven sensor fusion coupling DFOG optical coils with multi-band/all-band GNSS receivers and resilient electronic protection algorithms against jamming and spoofing.
* SWaP-C & Environmental Rating: Low Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) design housed in an IP67-rated precision aluminum enclosure certified to MIL-STD-810H and MIL-STD-461.
* Host Platform Integration: Integrates directly into Kongsberg PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Stations (RWS) and Medium Caliber Turrets (MCT30) across Poland’s 18 SAN C-UAS batteries mounted on Jelcz 8×8 trucks and Legwan light reconnaissance vehicles.
