Feature 7 | EXHIBITION REVIEW
The MT 30 is a contender for the CODLOG machinery for the Type 26 and GCS.
a range of 6km, CAMM will have a range of 25km but, like its predecessor, will also have a surface-to-surface capability. MBDA have high hopes for world sales and point out the ‘cold-launched’ system will operate with legacy sensor as well as command/ control systems. MBDA is also working on the Future
Anti-Surface Guided Weapon (Heavy) and Anti-Navire Léger (Light Anti-Ship) programme with the in-service lead time for the British and French programmes beginning in 2015. FASGW (H)/ANL will be a 100kg helicopter-launched weapon designed to sink or disable fast attack craſt up to 500tonnes. FASGW (Light) will be Thales UK’s
around the Athena combat management system with multi-display
and dual
display work stations featuring 40inch and 65inch screens. There would also be the SPA-25H radar display and the Integrated Tactical Command and Control Console (ITC-3) system. South African shipbuilder Nautic
Africa revealed it has delivered the second of a series of patrol craft designed and manufactured for West Africa. Te OPS 24, launched in July, will be used for operations in the Gulf of Guinea and is powered by twin CAT 32 engines driving MJP waterjets for a maximum speed of 27knots at full load and a range of 600nm.
Guided-weapon programmes DSEi was used to highlight a number of guided-weapon programmes. MBDA revealed the company is considering a ship-launched version of the air-launched Brimstone air-to-surface missile which has been used extensively in Libya. The company is considering a similar application for the Fire Shadow loitering munitions system, is approaching production and is attracting considerable interest while a naval version is now being considered. Several launcher location options are
being considered including a dedicated one or an adaptation of the army launcher which might operate from a helicopter deck. Command and control is regarded as fairly
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straightforward because the existing system is in transit cases and this could be set up in a spare cabin. IMI is marketing the Delilah SL (Sea
Launched) version of this helicopter- launched weapon. The air-launched missile is already in service with the Israeli Air Force and the company is proposing it as a long-range anti-surface vessel weapon with a man-in-the-loop capability for greater operational flexibility as well as better battle damage assessment. Delilah SL would be fitted with a booster but would be capable of being launched from any launching system at angles up to 90° to ship’s course. Te company states negotiations are under way for versions for naval helicopter use. It was stated that negotiations for the acquisition of the ship-launched weapon had been disrupted by the world economic crisis but IMI hoped to renew them next year. MBDA’s Common Anti-Air Modular
Missile (CAMM), already selected for the Type 23 and Type 26 class frigates, is to replace the former’s Seawolf and later being transferred to Type 26. CAMM is a multi-service weapon system and is part of the Type 23 (Duke class) frigate Capability Sustainability Programme to provide the Future Local Area Air Defence System (FLAADS-Maritime) entering service from 2016. Compared with the Seawolf close area defence surface-to-air missile, which has
Lightweight Multi-role Missile (LMM) with deliveries scheduled to begin from about 2013. LMM is a low-cost, lightweight, precision-strike, missile designed by the company’s Belfast site initially for use in the AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat initially with laser beam riding guidance, although later there will also be a semi-active laser variant, and with a variety of warheads.
Dual-band datalink Raytheon Missile Systems has completed the design and testing of a prototype dual-band datalink designed to enable interoperability between the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B ballistic missile interceptor and the APAR/SMART-L family of radars developed by Tales Nederland. Tese radars are in the German Sachsen (F 124) class and Dutch De Zeven Provincien class frigates, whose launcher systems are compatible with SM-3 unlike those of the Franco-Italian Horizons or the British Darings. However, MBDA is developing a ballistic missile version of Aster as Block 2. Tis will have a kill vehicle with infra-red guidance. Norway’s Kongsberg Defence Systems
stated it has begun deliveries of its Naval Strike Missile (NSM) to the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation (NDLO) for the Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and Skjold class strike craſt. Kongsberg is currently developing a land-attack version of the weapon to meet a Polish requirement. WT
More news from DSEi will follow in the next issue of Warship Technology
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