“We are seeing excellent momentum in the market
for Paramarine which is being adopted by more and more ship designers drawn from both the commercial and defence world. With the launch of the latest version coupled with our ongoing investment in the product we are very optimistic that the adoption of Paramarine as the marine design tool of choice will only accelerate,” said Vittorio Vagliani, Managing Director, QinetiQ GRC. Te recent launch of the latest version of Paramarine
(V7) has further extended the soſtware’s functionality with enhancements to its reporting, concurrent design and documentation capabilities.
Surface combatants Fourth Type 45
handed over Dragon, the fourth Type 45 anti-air warfare destroyer built by BAE Systems for the Royal Navy, has arrived in Portsmouth Naval Base, and has been handed over to the Ministry of Defence. Paul Rafferty, Type 45 programme director at BAE
Systems’ Surface Ships business, said: “Dragon is the most advanced Type 45 destroyer delivered to date. Working
in partnership with the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Navy, we have incorporated lessons learned from the earlier build and in-service support of her sister ships.
Weapon systems Daring gets first-
of-class Phalanx Babcock has set the first Phalanx 1B Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) to work on a Type 45 destroyer, follow- ing a first-of-class installation in HMS Daring. Babcock undertakes equipment procurement from the
US original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Raytheon, and will supervise the installation in HMS Daring at Portsmouth Naval Base. Once the installation of the two systems is complete Babcock engineers will then commission the systems, culminating in Naval Weapon Sea Trial (NWST) including a towed target firing. The installation of Phalanx 1B in HMS Daring
represents the fiſth and sixth fit of the 1B system. Under a contract held by Babcock as prime contrac- tor to upgrade 16 Phalanx systems to the 1B system capability on Royal Navy vessels, the company has previously been responsible for two installations of the
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