HK8 Avionics Write Up

The Super Viking’s avionics package largely includes the Cromwell II system. After an agreement was made between the Protectorate and AeroTech, the Minnysotan company began to buy Cromwell systems from Lyran factories in Minnysota. With this, the Super Viking obtained one of the most advanced guidance systems for any munitions in the world. The idea of using Gallium Arsenide as an EMP-resistant wire covering was also inherited from the partner company, Lyran Arms. This, combined with an uplink to the  Cromwell II battle network, allows the Super Viking to pose a serious threat to any established military power.

The artificial intelligence, sensory packages, and networking abilities are the centerpiece to the Super Viking as a weapons system. The Cromwell II system gives the Super Viking an adaptive quality along with a system that responds to new threats and targets. These features give the nation operating the Super Viking several diverse ways of obliterating a target along with diverse options for its usage.

By automatically sending command-linked inputs to the Super Viking’s AI, the Cromwell allows the missile to operate largely independently. The Super Viking is able to plan its own route based on new information; analyze the battlefield situation; abort a mission based on success or failure rate (this depends on live feed to the AI itself); obtain new targets on its own based on a list of secondary or other primary targets; evade defensive systems; and engage wherever the Cromwell determines a threat level to be high. These functions are capable only through the continued information sharing between the Cromwell II network and the missile’s own computer systems. This gives the missile a keen knowledge of the intensity of an area it is going into. The missile also gains the ability to adjust its flight path based on the target priorities in a pre-determined area and the rules of engagement given to onboard computers by Cromwell II prior to flight.

Integral sensory suites in the Super Viking allow it to perform IR, active and passive radar, EM, EW, MAD, and thermal information reconnaissance. The sensors also work in tandem with the Cromwell II network in order to coordinate an effective strike.

The launch platform of any Super Viking may overrule a HK8’s mission, alter a mission, or abort a mission during pre-flight and/or mid-flight. However, the Super Viking still largely acts independent of these means because of the effectiveness of the avionics, making this effort from the launch crew largely unnecessary.

Through coordination with the onboard avionics and the Cromwell, along with the sophistication of onboard sensors, the Super Viking is able to achieve a high success rate and to operate in tandem with nearby missiles and the entire Cromwell data server. These advanced means of guidance allow Super Viking units to assess how they may best serve its host nation in mere seconds.