Defence Notes

Triton UAS connects sea and air assets in interoperability demo

16th February 2023

Northrop Grumman has used a Triton UAV to test network gateway technology designed to connect US Navy combat aircraft and surface vessels.

Naval Warfare

Raytheon to support Cooperative Engagement Capability design and engineering for three FMS customers plus USN

27th September 2022

The DoD announced on 26 September that Raytheon Technologies has received a $45.34 million contract modification from Naval Sea Systems Command to exercise design agent …

Destroyers

Future Destroyers - FFM (Japan)

Programme Background Requirements Following the Maya-class destroyers, the JMSDF will not just maintain the destroyer units they operate already but will receive two new destroyer platforms. It ...

Military helicopters - maritime

Maritime Operations Helicopters Block 2 (South Korea)

Programme Background The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) was seeking additional naval helicopters under its Maritime Operations Helicopter Batch 2 (MOH2) project. It represented a ...

Destroyers

Future Guided Missile Destroyer (ROCN)

Four new destroyers are part of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) force modernisation which includes 12 indigenous shipbuilding programmes and upgrade projects. This is ...

Military helicopters - transport/heavy lift

Mi-171 Replacement (Philippines)

Programme Background Requirement In November 2021, Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed that a contract has been signed between the DND for the acquisition of ...

Destroyers

Sejong the Great Class (KDX-III) Batch 2 (South Korea)

Programme Background Requirements The Sejong the Great class (KDX-III) Batch 2 will consist of three improved Sejong the Great-class (KDX-III) batch 1 guided-missile destroyers, which ...

Frigates

Sea 5000 Future Frigate (Hunter Class)

Programme Background The Type 26 design and manufacture programme is known as the Global Combat Ship, created by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The ...

Destroyers

KDX-IV Korea Destroyer Next Generation (KDDX)

Programme Background Plans for a new ‘Heavy Destroyer’ was first unveiled in 2016 that is planned for the 2030s that will replace the older KDX ...

Frigates

F124 Frigate Replacement Programme (F127) (Germany)

Programme Background Requirements The German Navy gave Shephard an update on the programme in October 2021. Germany expects to introduce the next-generation F127 frigate into ...

Destroyers

Next-Generation Large Surface Combatants (LSC) - DDG(X)

Programme Background RequirementsThe US Navy (USN) is acknowledging a need to move away from the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer design which is slowly outgrowing. Flight III ...

Frigates

Hellenic Frigate Procurement Programme (1-3)

Programme Background The Hellenic Navy is in the process of acquiring new Frigates. This major equipment programme has been the most discussed equipment issue on the Greek ...

Sea: fire control systems, Sea: maritime awareness systems

Aegis Weapon System

Aegis Weapon System is an integrated missile guidance system used on USN and allied ships to perform anti-air and ballistic missile defence missions.  The S-band phased-array ...

AEgis Elements Real-time 3D Modeling

The AEgis Elements site is loaded with high-fidelity, real-time, military 3D models that have been custom-built and compiled over the last two decades by 3D ...

Deployable/static missile systems

Aegis Ashore

Aegis Ashore is the first operational land-based version of the Aegis Combat System originally developed by Lockheed Martin for the US Navy's Ballistic Missile Defence ...

Naval: COMINT and ELINT systems

Aldebaran

Aldebaran is an ESM/ECM system for maritime applications, used on Spanish Navy F-100 Aegis frigates.

Sea: naval fire control radar

AN/SPY-1 air search radar

Aegis is an integrated missile guidance system used on USN and allied ships to perform anti-air and ballistic missile defence missions. The S-band phased-array AN/SPY-1D(V) ...

EO/IR systems

Vampir MB

Vampir MB is a long-range bispectral IR search and track system that can operate alone or as a low-altitude gap filler to complement air search ...

Sea: communication systems

IVCS

The Integrated Voice Communications System (IVCS) is a shipboard communications system that combines naval telephones and intercom equipment into one system. It consists of terminals, ...

Sea: ship surveillance and fire control systems

Vampir

The Vampir is a long-range, bispectral IR search and track system that can operate alone or as a low-altitude gap filler to complement air search ...

Destroyers

Kongō Class

The Kongō class destroyers were built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and IHI Corporation. Commissioned throughout the 1990s, the class is ...

Sea: ship surveillance and fire control systems

MK99

The MK99 is a fire control system developed and produced by Raytheon. It is commonly deployed as part of the wider AEGIS combat system with ...

Sea: maritime awareness systems

COMBATSS-21

Produced by Lockheed Martin, the Littoral Combat Ship Component Based Total Ship System – 21st Century (COMBATSS-21) is a modular, scalable open combat management system that can be ...

Land: air defence simulators

IMTS

The Improved Moving Target Simulator (IMTS) for air defence training consists of a 38ft-diameter hemispherical dome screen with multiple computer-generated images (including geometry correction and ...

Sea: sonar systems

AN/SQQ-89

The AN/SQQ-89 is an ASW combat system incorporates and processes all the sonar information and LAMPS sensor data. Manufactured by Lockheed Martin, there are currently ...

Sea: naval surveillance radar

CEAFar

CEA is providing the CEAFar active phased-array radar for the anti-ship missile defence upgrade to the RAN’s Anzac-class frigates. The CEAFar provides digital beam-forming radar ...

Deployable/static missile systems

MK 41 Vertical Launching System

The MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) is a modular, canister launching system manufactured by Lockheed Martin for the US Navy's Aegis-equipped guided missile cruisers ...