Munich, 3 May 2018 – With the Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for the last unit in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, completed, HENSOLDT has equipped a total of six military airfields in Canada with state-of-the-art Airport Surveillance Radars. In addition to these, a training system has also been successfully installed in Canada. This successfully completes the installation phase for the €50m order, which was awarded to HENSOLDT in 2013.
The programme comprises the delivery of seven radar systems and two spare parts packages. In a similar way to previous systems, the radar in Greenwood was also handed over to the customer by a team comprising representatives from the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and from HENSOLDT’s local partner Lockheed Martin Canada (LMC).
The ASR radars consist of an integrated primary and secondary radar system each. The primary radar helps to detect non-cooperative objects such as small aircraft without transponders or hostile aircraft. It is based on a semiconductor transmitter and includes special signal processing techniques for wide-area surveillance and windfarm mitigation. The secondary radar, MSSR 2000 I, provides automatic identification of cooperative aircraft. It meets the new “Mode S/Mode 5” air traffic control standard, which greatly improves aircraft identification queries and is currently being introduced in all NATO and allied forces.
HENSOLDT liefert Flugverkehrskontroll- und Identifizierungssysteme für militärische und zivile Zwecke an Kunden auf der ganzen Welt. So hat das Unternehmen unter anderem auch die Fliegerhorste der Bundeswehr mit dem Flugplatz-Überwachungsradar ASR-S ausgerüstet (ASR-S = Airport Surveillance Radar, S-Band); ebenso liefert es ein komplettes Anflugleitsystem für die Militärflugplätze der Schweiz. Andere Versionen seines neuen ASRNG-Radars sind für Australien und Großbritannien unter Vertrag. Das MSSR-2000-ISekundärradar wird von den Seestreitkräften Deutschlands, Frankreichs, Norwegens und Finnlands zur militärischen Freund-Feind-Erkennung eingesetzt.
About HENSOLDT
HENSOLDT is a global pioneer of technology and innovation in the area of defence and security electronics. The company is a market leader in civilian and military sensor solutions, developing new products to counter evolving threats based on disruptive concepts in such fields as big data, robotics and cyber security. With a workforce of some 4,300 employees, HENSOLDT generates revenues of more than 1 billion euros per year.
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