Radar & Sensor Fusion Corridors as a Tactical Capability for Integrated Air and Missile Defence
Closing surveillance gaps to ensure continuous air and missile situational awareness across allied operational corridors
Radar and Sensor Fusion Corridors address a structural operational vulnerability in contemporary air and missile defence: the inability to maintain a coherent and resilient surveillance picture across contiguous operational axes under conditions of high operational tempo and contested electromagnetic environments. Even when strategic air defence plans exist and interceptor capabilities are available, those capabilities lose operational effectiveness if detection and tracking networks cannot provide continuous, integrated awareness across national and alliance boundaries. In such circumstances, adversaries can exploit discontinuities in surveillance coverage to conduct coordinated attacks using missiles, aircraft, unmanned systems, and electronic warfare measures. The Radar & Sensor Fusion Corridors capability therefore functions as the enabling surveillance layer of Integrated Air and Missile Defence. Its purpose is to ensure that the distributed network of national sensors, airborne platforms, and space-based systems can be fused into a continuous operational picture that allows timely detection, tracking, and engagement of threats across the entire operational corridor.