The full-performance Leonardo’s Kronos Grand Naval model equips Italian Navy’s FREMM type frigates and Algerian navy’s landing platform dock and support ship and has been ordered by Qatar Emiri Naval Forces for its new multirole 100-meters corvette to be supplied by Fincantieri. ©Leonardo.
The BAE Systems’ Artisan 3D S-band medium range radar has become the standard system on board Royal Navy’s major combatant and amphibious ships and is being promoted on the export market for a wide range of missions. ©BAE Systems
threats) requirements. Thanks to radar developments successfully exploited during recent NATO’s Formidable Shield naval integrated air defence exercise, Italian Navy and Leonardo have successfully demonstrated the system detection and tracking capabilities in the ballistic missile defence domain, which could be fully exploited with external cueing information or as autonomous detection and latest versions of MBDA Aster missile. As part of Leonardo’s LNDE division technological development roadmap towards a multirole single (X or C) or dual-band radar, the under-development new generation C-band radar modules incorporating GaN technology, could be applied to single-rotating antenna radars to match the market requirements. The BAE Systems’ Artisan 3D S-band medium range radar has become the standard system on board Royal Navy’s major combatant and amphibious ships and is being promoted on the export market for a wide range of missions. Developed by BAE Systems in conjunction with QinetiQ and Roke Manor Research, the Artisan is a solid-state 3D multibeam radar based on technology derived from the UK’s ARTIST (Advanced Radar Technology Integrated System Testbed) technology
demonstrator programme, Sampson multifunction radar and the Commander ground-based air defence family. Designed to replace the Type 996 radar, the 3D Artisan Type 997 model offers significantly improved small target detection capability in the littoral anti-air warfare role, an anti-surface warfare capability, compatibility with the existing IFF interrogator (with a growth path to IFF Mode 5 and Mode S functionality) an air traffic management capability, especially for carrier air operations support. The Artisan radar also provides tracks for MBDA Sea Ceptor air defence system. Able to manage up to 800 air and surface tracks, according to BAE Systems, the Artisan 3D radar is capable of functioning in any one of four modes including long-range (up to 225 km), littoral water defence, open water defence and air traffic management (up to 150 km) with a 30 rpm. BAE Systems has developed, manufactured and delivered 19 radars for the Royal Navy in addition to support until 2022.
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