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New offshore surveillance system for Azerbaijan

27th January 2014 - 09:12 GMT | by Beth Stevenson in London

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Kelvin Hughes has announced that its SharpEye radar system will be integrated onto oil and gas platforms in support of an offshore gas protection effort in the Caspian Sea.

The contract, announced on 27 January, will see the company provide 11 SBS 800 X-band SharpEye systems to prime integrator VisSim as part of a wider coastal surveillance system for Azerbaijan.

‘In Azerbaijan there are a number of offshore oil and gas platforms out there, and we have supplied a number of radars to be fitted to some of those platforms as a coastal surveillance system, which gives them a

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