Description
- Ideal for small combatants such as OPVs, corvettes, ships of opportunity, and USVs
- Ideal for littoral operations and very useful in deep water as part of a multistatic system
- Naval defence and surveillance
- Drug interdiction
- Homeland security
- Water-borne policing
Active Frequency | VLF, LF, MF, and HF |
Source Level | High power |
Transmit | Omni-directional |
Receive | Directional receive array |
Detection Range | Up to 150 km (Excess of 2nd CZ) |
Maximum Operating Depth | 300 m |
Tow Speed | 17+ kt |
Survival Speed | 28+ kt |
Features
- Installation options include containerization on multi-mission
vessels and standard deck-mounting - Compatible with hull-mounted sonar, dipping sonar and sonobuoys for bistatic and multistatic operations
- Surface operation without cavitation
- Compact winch and fairlead
- Horizontal beam pattern
- Left-right ambiguity resolution
- Multi-target tracking
- Built-in health monitoring/BIT
- Processing software designed with advanced displays, analysis tools, and intuitive workflow to aid operators and reduce training requirements
- Adjustable source level and monitoring for marine mammals
Options
- Active torpedo detection
- Torpedo decoy
- Passive receiver
- Black box pinger detection
- Sonobuoy processor
Components
- Directional passive towed array
- Vertical projector array
- Armoured tow cable
- Neutrally-buoyant tow cable
- Slip-ring winch and fairlead
- Power amplifier, step-up transformer and signal generator
- Control console and sonar processing software with real-time detection, classification and localization
