The Shaheen Autonomous Collaborative System (ACS) is a multilayered architecture where there is no dependency on any one aircraft (exclusively) to complete a mission.

The system is integrated as a mesh, interoperable, with interchangeable aircraft, with units and payload being replaced in real time, to ensure persistent dominance and on-time, on-demand availability of intelligence gathering, surveillance capabilities, and kinetic tools availability.

Highlights

1. The collaborative architecture enables optimal adaptation to maintain mission performance in the face of attrition.
2. This reduces risk of mission failure because one lost aircraft can be substituted by another.
3. The loss of one aircraft does not severely impact the cost-effectiveness of the system.
4. The kinetic execution can be performed with the less expensive aircraft, when the tactical engagement is well planned.

Structural baseline

1. Resilient characteristics to operate in disaggregated, disconnected and degraded environments.
2. Interconnected using a common architecture.
3. Operate risk-tolerant capable aircraft to complement survivable combat aircraft, under the same control infrastructure.
4. It can, and should be implemented as a process, while building infrastructure, training personnel, and adopting its Doctrine of Use. A well thought integration into an already existing structure reduces the financial burden of the acquisition.