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Hypersonic Weapon as a New Challenge for the Anti-Aircraft
Defense Command and Control System
Piotr MALINOWSKI
Military University of Aviation, Dęblin, Poland; p.malinowski@law.mil.pl,
ORCID: 0000-0002-4240-982X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37105/sd.87
Abstract
The intensification of the air threat resulting from the emergence of hypersonic weapons in
the immediate vicinity of Poland has become a significant challenge for the Polish armed
forces, including anti-aircraft defense. The capabilities of the new type of weapon determine
not only the need to modernize and acquire systems designed to engage aerial targets, but
also the command and control systems that control them. Due to the nature and the limited
scope of the article, the deliberations presented in it are generalized results of a research on
the scale of the threat posed by hypersonic weapons in the airspace and the need to modern-
ize anti-aircraft defense command and control subsystems, which may be involved in com-
bating them as part of the national air defense system. The presented conclusions also con-
cern the problems of multiplying the current level of automation of the command and con-
trol subsystem. This is related to the need for the effectiveness of the military decision-
making process as well as uninterrupted and efficient cooperation with the national and al-
lied elements of the air reconnaissance and air defense assets subsystems, including the
components of missile defense, which is predestined to engage hypersonic weapons.
Keywords: military security, hypersonic weapons, anti-aircraft defense, C2 system
1. Introduction
The advent of the era of hypersonic air
threats in tactical operations is redefining
the requirements for the entire anti-aircraft
defense system, including its command and
control subsystem. Although the idea of cre-
ating a weapon capable of immediate reac-
tion, of large range, is not new, still its em-
bodiment in the form of a Russian hyper-
sonic weapon is a significant transformation
