Maritime platform protection
Detect, intercept, identify and locate threatsSelf-defense is a vital asset
To protect platforms and crews from current and asymmetric threats, self-defence is a vital asset. Our modular and scalable self-protection systems are designed to help you succeed in completing increasingly sensitive naval operations.
Our commitment is to enable vessels to carry out their mission while protecting their crews. To achieve this, we provide self-defence systems that are essential in shielding vessels from potential threats, whether expected or unexpected.
Customizable solutions for safeguarding marine platforms
Our self-defence systems provide ships and submarines with the ability to detect, intercept, identify and locate threats, giving them the essential self-protection capabilities required for maritime operations. We provide protection against laser-guided missiles and enemy radar systems, and also offer a magnetic degaussing system and an active shaft grounding system.
HENSOLDT offers customisable solutions for marine platform protection that can be adapted to various types of ships and submarines. Our systems can be integrated into new vessels, retrofitted onto existing ships, or used to replace obsolete systems.
Protection from laser-guided missiles
Laser threats, such as laser rangefinders and laser guidance systems, are widespread. Only laser warning devices can alert threatened ships and trigger appropriate countermeasures. We offer ESM systems that detect laser range finders, laser target designators and laser beam riders with an excellent efficiency in all bearings.
The systems provide ships with the ability to detect, intercept, identify and locate threats, giving them the self-protection they need.
Electronic self-protection
Military airborne, shipborne and ground-based radars are designed to operate in a cluttered environment. Modern radars, such as pulsed Doppler radar, have a fixed phase relationship between the transmitted and received RF signals because they operate on the basis of coherent processing.
Digital Radio Frequency Memories (DRFM) have become the core of any electronic jamming system. The DRFM stores radar signals, modulates them with jamming signals and then retransmits them to the threat, thus protecting ships from radar-based threats.
Active shaft grounding system
When a vessel travels at sea, it generates an electromotive force due to the use of materials with different electrochemical properties. This creates an electric current that damages the bearings of ships and submarines.
HENSOLDT’s active shaft grounding system protects these bearings by reducing corrosion. It also significantly improves the electromagnetic discretion of ships.
Magnetic degaussing
Discretion is one of the most important characteristics of a military vessel. HENSOLDT’s degaussing solutions are designed to make ships and submarines invisible to magnetic field sensors in mines and patrol aircraft.
Our systems protect naval platforms by significantly reducing the magnetic signature that makes them vulnerable to detection and attack.
Our expertise
State-of-the-art electronic warfare solutions that detect and neutralise various threats
Detecting and countering laser-guided threats
Ensuring the longevity and operational reliability of naval propulsion systems
Reducing the magnetic signature of submarines and surface vessels
Key benefits
Maximising performance and valueBest possible protection at sea
- Equipped for all situations that could endanger the vessel and its crew
- Protected against external influences – whether from enemy ships or material-related deterioration
Highly customizable solutions
- Easy to integrate into existing and future electronic warfare suites using standard interfaces
- Optimise onboard power consumption
- Can be integrated into new vessels, retrofitted onto existing ships or used to replace obsolete systems
Create a 360° protective shield
- Reduces overall ship and submarine magnetic signature
- Provides real-time information on potential threats coming from different directions without blind spots