• Defence Notes

  DSEI 2023 in review: Ukraine, AI and the real world

  20th September 2023

  DSEI 2023 took place in the shadow of the largest European land war in more than seven decades and a growth in conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) with limited UK immediate defence programme opportunities; many of the new products and exhibitors' announcements reflected this.

• Digital Battlespace

  MARSS launches containerised C2 centre for counter-UAS

  7th July 2023

  MARSS has unveiled the NiDAR X-JOC, an all-in-one containerised C2 centre with UAS detection and countermeasures capabilities to protect critical sites against UAS.

• Uncrewed Vehicles

  MARSS confronts maritime drone threat with new tracking system

  21st November 2022

  The NiDAR CUAS Compact system developed by MARSS is designed to identify and track potential drone threats to vessels using multiple sensor feeds.

• Uncrewed Vehicles

  WDS 2022: MARSS targets Middle East market for C-UAS interceptor

  7th March 2022

  An AI-enabled interceptor UAV from MARSS is designed to engage up to three targets per sortie - will Saudi Arabia be the first to order it?

• Digital Battlespace

  MARSS showcases NiDAR in US

  5th November 2020

  Trial successfully demonstrates C-UAS capabilities, says UK company

• Digital Battlespace

  NiDAR includes kinetic C-UAS countermeasures

  12th October 2020

  NiDAR AI developer MARSS will demonstrate extra capabilities this month

• Digital Battlespace

  RMN patrol vessel receives MARSS NiDAR system

  13th October 2017

  MARSS has successfully installed its NiDAR perimeter security system on the first of six offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN), the company …

• Special Operations

  NiDAR C2 system for Zodiac Hurricane RIBs

  7th August 2017

  MARSS will supply its NiDAR command and control (C2) system for Zodiac Milpro’s Zodiac Hurricane Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RIB) under a new $2 million …

• Naval Warfare

  Sonardyne Sentinel equips OPVs in Asia

  27th July 2017

  Sonardyne International is supplying its Sentinel diver detection sonar technology for a fleet of offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) under construction in Asia, the company announced on …

• Digital Battlespace

  MARSS unveils new NiDAR C2 system

  10th July 2017

  MARSS has introduced a new version of its NiDAR command and control system to link multiple small and medium sized mobile platforms together, the company …

Equipment Results - Defence Insight

• Sea: sonar systems

  Sentinel IDS

  The Sentinel Intruder Detection Sonar (IDS) is a sonar system manufactured by UK based manufacturer, Sonardyne. The system uses tracking software that combines data from multiple ...

• Sealift/replenishment vessels

  MV Asterix

  At a cost of C$700 million, the 182.5m-long 26,000ton MV Asterix, a commercial container ship, was converted by Davie Shipbuilding and delivered to the RCN ...