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HWIL SUPPORT EQUIPMENT

One key capability is Valkyrie's Hypersonic HWIL facility, which integrates physical hypersonic vehicle tactical hardware and software with high-fidelity, real-time digital simulations. This advanced environment enables engineers to validate guidance, navigation, and control algorithms, sensor performance, and flight control computers under the extreme thermal, aerodynamic, and electronic conditions experienced during hypersonic flight.   

TEST CHALLENGE

Military systems must be tested against fast changing, multidomain threats and highly dynamic environments that are difficult, costly, and often impossible to replicate through live testing alone. 

 

SYSTEM CAPABILITIES 

Valkyrie maintains a highly capable HWIL support ecosystem that combines deterministic real-time control, advanced flight modeling, and dynamic visualization into an integrated test environment. The real-time executive provides precise sub-microsecond level synchronization across motion tables, scene generators, sensor interfaces, and simulation nodes, ensuring coherent closed loop operation under demanding conditions. 

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PLATFORM APPLICATIONS

  • Missile and precision‑guided weapons 

  • Hypersonic vehicles 

  • Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) 

  • Space‑based sensors and GNSS receivers 

  • Air‑to‑ground and air‑to‑air targeting systems 

  • Autonomous GNC and sensor‑fusion platforms

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LAB / RANGE INTEGRATION

Real-time data distribution capability moves flight representative telemetry, sensor outputs, and signals seamlessly across networked HWIL nodes allowing laboratory generated trajectories, target scenes, and seeker responses to be transmitted, monitored, and recorded simulating live test conditions.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

  • Modular architecture supporting multicore processors, distributed computing, reflective memory, and FPGA co-processing 

  • STIG-compliant RHEL platform 

  • Hardware synchronization using Safran TSYNC with support for IEEE 1588 PTP 

  • Broad COTS I/O – digital, analog, serial 

  • NVMe RAID storage with sustained multi-GB/s streaming and timestamping 

  • Deterministic networking using 10/25/40/100 Gb Ethernet, zero-copy messaging, and ScramNet reflective memory 

  • 6DoF execution up to 10kHz 

  • Integrated health monitoring

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