Vital warships providing supplies and technical support to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers will made by British-led teams, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced. A competition to build three Fleet Solid Support warships – which will launch in Spring 2021 – will help revitalise British shipbuilding by requiring a significant proportion ...
UK defence and security electronic system company, SEA, has been selected to provide its acoustic sensor technology KraitArray to a major Australian Defence Innovation Hub Phase 3 contract for autonomous anti-submarine warfare (ASW). The SEA low-profile towed array was chosen by Australian prime contractor BlueZone Group to form part of a ...
CGI has been awarded a contract by Marine Specialised Technology Group to supply the Mission Systems for two state-of-the-art 19.0m high-speed patrol craft for the UK Royal Navy. CGI OpenSea360 is a Maritime Mission System for sub 24m high-speed craft. It offers a scalable, open-architecture solution that integrates platform systems, sensors, ...
Peter Hodgkinson, Business Development Director at SEA, explores the company’s development of the anti-submarine warfare capability centred on the Krait Array low profile towed array sonar, and how findings from its most recent NATO trial will guide future R&D. At a time when there is major global investment in submarines, anti-submarine ...