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VIGILANCIA Y DEFENSA LITORAL

Littoral surveillance & beach defense

Persistent surveillance and defense of coastline, beaches, ports and maritime access points through fixed, mobile and unmanned sensors, integrating surface, low-altitude and land-perimeter pictures into a single tactical picture with response capability.

01.Operational problem

The coastline, beaches, ports and maritime access points form a contested access space, and watching them permanently ties down a large number of personnel. Solved with sensors alone, the problem resembles civil security; the military question is to detect and, further, to be able to deny, fix or engage a threat trying to enter through a beach, port or landing zone, integrating the surface, low-altitude and land-perimeter pictures into a single, response-capable picture.

Miriad combines persistent sensing — MFI VIPER, a fixed EW and perimeter-protection tower, and mobile TRITON RECON over the coast and nearby waters — with a mobile beach-defense node: TAURUS RECON as an advanced sensor, C2, C-UAS, relay and fire support from prepared positions, and ARIES as the close anti-FPV/anti-UAS layer and node protection. That combination turns surveillance into beach defense and force protection — a littoral military mission, not civil security. Human command authorizes the response.

02.Systems, components, technology and intelligence involved:

  • Taurus Recon

    Mobile beach defence node: forward sensor, C2, C-UAS, relay and fire support/cueing from prepared positions

  • MFI VIPER

    Fixed, autonomous electronic warfare and perimeter protection tower: frequency scanning, C-UAS and multi-sensor fusion (radar, EO/IR and acoustics) with automated electronic response over coastline, ports, bases and perimeters

  • TRITON RECON

    Navalised RECON architecture: mobile observation of the coast and nearby waters, designation and counter-drone defence from the maritime domain.

  • C2

    It merges surface, low altitude and perimeter into a common tactical picture; command decides and authorises the response.

  • ARIES C-UAS

    Close-in anti-FPV/anti-UAS layer and protection of the nodes.

03.Operational architecture

  1. DETECT

    Persistent littoral picture

    MFI VIPER provides fixed perimeter surveillance with C-UAS and multi-sensor fusion, and TRITON RECON extends mobile observation over the coast and nearby waters: surface, low-altitude and land-perimeter fused into a single picture.

  2. Decide

    Deny, fix or engage

    The common picture classifies the threat trying to enter through a beach, port or landing zone; command decides to deny access, fix it, or authorize the effect.

  3. Act

    Beach and approach defence

    TAURUS RECON denies, fixes or provides cueing and fire support from prepared positions; ARIES protects the nodes and defeats the close-in FPV/UAS threat, under human authorisation.

How they relate · systems and technologies in the mission flow

  1. MFI VIPER · TRITON RECON

    Fixed persistence and mobile observation over coastline, ports and approaches.

    • EO/IR
    • SAIS 360°

  2. Common tactical picture

    Surface, low altitude and perimeter fused; command decides whether to deny, fix or engage.

    • Consola C2
    • NEURON

  3. Beach defence

    TAURUS denies/fixes/cues; ARIES protects nodes and defeats close-in FPV/UAS.

    • HORN30
    • MER1 / MER2

C2 · Command and control Mission software embedded in every platform · a common console at the command post · the entire mission flow travels through a single command and control layer

Intelligence

04.Program status

Concept of employment in development

Littoral Surveillance and Defense combines fixed and naval sensors and family platforms into a coastal defense network; concept of employment in development, 2026.

This is the defensive counterpart of the littoral axis: it watches and defends coastline, beaches and access points, where Amphibious Assault projects force from ship to shore. It shares its sensor architecture with Air Surveillance and Area Security.

Missions