【9月29日】看軍聞學英語

■泰戈爾

原文：

The Wallabee prototype is set to provide the Army and the J-7 with more intelligence-gathering capabilities in the stratosphere.

The Army’s intelligence hub and the Joint Staff’s J-7 are set to test a new prototype system, dubbed Project Wallabee, comprising an autonomous target recognition sensor on top of a stratospheric high-altitude balloon in the coming days, a senior Army official told Breaking Defense.

The exercise, in which the Army’s G-2 is partnering with the J-7’s Warfighter Laboratory Incentive Fund program, is the first time the military is testing manufacturer Urban Sky’s high-altitude balloon with Applied Intuition’s small sensor.

Andrew Evans, the director for the new Strategy & Transformation Office inside the G-2, said it’s been notoriously difficult to find sensors small enough to thrive on high-altitude platforms given the precarious nature of the stratosphere.

He explained that the payloads that the Army has been investing in up until this point have been much heavier and require much more power, causing them to be ineffective in the stratosphere.

中譯：

「袋鼠」原型系統預計將為陸軍和 J-7 提供更多在平流層進行情報蒐集的能力。

一位陸軍高級官員向《Breaking Defense》透露，陸軍的情報核心樞紐與參謀長聯席會議的 J-7（聯合部隊發展部）正準備在未來幾天內，測試一項被稱為「袋鼠計畫」的新型原型系統。該系統包含一個安裝在平流層高空氣球頂部的「自動目標識別感測器」。

在這項演訓中，陸軍的 G-2（情報參謀次長室）與 J-7 的「作戰人員實驗室激勵基金計畫」展開合作。這也是軍方首次將製造商「市區天空」的高空氣球，與「應用直覺」公司的微型感測器結合進行測試。

陸軍 G-2 新成立的戰略與轉型辦公室主任埃文斯表示，鑑於平流層環境的多變與危險性，要找到足夠微型且能在高空平臺上良好運作的感測器是出了名的困難。

他解釋，陸軍直到目前為止所投資的任務酬載都重得多，且需要消耗更多電力，導致它們在平流層中無法發揮作用。

─關鍵軍語─

※intelligence-gathering：情報蒐集

※payloads：酬載