Exhibitions · 2023
Almaz-Antey — the S-350E Vityaz air defence missile system at the ARMY 2023 forum
Exhibitions / Almaz-Antey — the S-350E Vityaz air defence missile system at the ARMY 2023 forum
About the project
An interactive installation about the S-350E Vityaz air defence missile system for the Almaz-Antey stand at ARMY 2023: a touch table controls a hologram on a large screen.
On 14–20 August 2023 the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre hosted the ARMY 2023 International Military-Technical Forum. The Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defence Concern showed its air defence systems there, and one of the themes of its exhibit was the S-350E Vityaz medium-range air defence missile system.
For the concern’s stand we made the content and software of an interactive installation about the Vityaz: a visitor picks a section on the touch table, and the large screen behind the table shows 3D models of the vehicles, diagrams of the detection and engagement zones and an animation of combat operation.
Year
2023
Industry
Exhibitions
Scope of work
Content and software for an interactive installation: a touch table, an LED screen and a holographic screen
Venue
ARMY 2023 forum, Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre, Moscow Region
- 6
- sections about the system on the touch table
- 5
- products with 3D models and cards
- 5
- diagrams of detection and engagement zones
The task
The task was to present the S-350E Vityaz so that visitors choose for themselves what to look at: what the system is for, what it consists of, which targets it engages, what its specifications are and how it fights. The touch table, the LED screen and the holographic screen had to work as one: a touch on the table changes the image on the screen. All of it by the forum opening on 14 August.
What we did
Start screen
The table shows the concern’s emblem and the button “S-350E ‘Vityaz’ air defence missile system”; the screen shows a title screen with the name of the system. Then come six sections.
“Purpose”
The screen shows the whole system around a protected site under a dome; the table shows which sites it is designed to defend: administrative, industrial and military.
“Features”
An animation of all-round defence: the system repels attacks from any direction at altitudes from extremely low to high.
“Types of targets engaged”
Red 3D models of targets: aerodynamic ones — aircraft, helicopters, drones and air-launched weapons — and ballistic missiles. A target is selected with an icon on the table.
“Composition”
Five products: the 50K6E command post, the 50N6E multifunction radar, the 50P6E launcher, the 50P6TE launcher-loader and the 9M96E2 surface-to-air guided missile. Each has a 3D model and a card describing its purpose. The deployment layout: the command post in the centre, the radars and launchers up to 2 km from it, and links to neighbouring systems and higher command assets at 15–30 km.
“Specifications”
Five diagrams of detection and engagement zones: the circular and sector modes of detecting aerodynamic targets, the ballistic target detection mode, and the engagement zones for aerodynamic and ballistic targets. A table of maximum performance: up to 200 tracks, up to 16 aerodynamic and up to 12 ballistic targets engaged simultaneously, deployment in 5 minutes.
“Combat operation”
A 2 min 23 s video in four episodes: entering combat operation, engaging an aerodynamic target, engaging a ballistic target, and 360° sector combat operation — repelling a massive air raid. It shows how commands and data pass between the radar, the command post and the launchers, how the detection and engagement zones appear and how the missiles are guided to their targets.
How it is built
Three surfaces: a touch table in front of the screen, an LED screen and a holographic screen on top of it. The LED screen shows the background — mountain terrain and texts; the holographic one shows 3D models, lines and labels.
The screen is controlled from the table: choosing a section starts its own video on the screen.
A unified look: the equipment is a glowing blue wireframe, targets are red, detection zones are green and engagement zones are red.
Result
The installation ran on the concern’s stand at the ARMY 2023 forum on 14–20 August 2023; the video of the working stand was shot on 15 August. The six sections on the S-350E Vityaz cover five products, five diagrams and four combat operation episodes.
