German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
Summary
Rheinmetall opens its onboardapi, a DDS-based library for seamless sensor-to-software communication in battlefield hardware. The documentation describes a standardized data model, backward compatibility via DDS XTypes/XCDR2, and multi-language wrappers (C++, Java, C#, Python) to enable cross-platform integration. This API/documentation is aimed at developers integrating embedded weapon-system components.