5 mars 2015 Thales Group

19.01.2015 By Stephen Trimble - FG

Washington DC - A new competition has emerged to upgrade the radars for potentially hundreds of the original Boeing F/A-18 Hornet fighters operated by US and foreign militaries.

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have confirmed plans to offer tailored versions of each company’s active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars for so-called “legacy” F/A-18 Hornets, including A, B, C, D models.

Raytheon recently performed a flight test of the APG-79(V)X radar, a system scaled down from the APG-79 installed on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

“I was sitting in the testbed myself and watching it real time it felt like watching the APG-79 I saw in the fleet,” says Michael “Ponch” Garcia, a Raytheon business development director and former US Navy F/A-18E/F pilot and instructor.

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18.12.2014 par La Voix de la Russie

L'Ukraine envisage d'acheter des radars anti-mortiers à la société américaine Defense Technology Inc, a annoncé mercredi à Kiev le consortium public ukrainien Ukroboronprom.

"Des nouveaux radars anti-mortiers AN/TPQ-49 commandés par le ministère ukrainien de la Défense arriveront au début de 2015. La société publique Ukrinmash, qui fait partie d'Ukroboronprom, a signé un contrat approprié avec la société américaine Defense Technology Inc", a indiqué le consortium dans un communiqué.

Selon Ukroboronprom, les radars anti-mortiers en question sont capables de détecter immédiatement les postes de tir ennemis et ont une portée de 50 m à 10 km.

Ukrinmash a déjà signé des contrats avec le français Thales Group et les sociétés américaines ATN Corp et Barrett Firearms sur la livraison d'armes et équipements militaires modernes.

Massy, France, 11 December 2014 –  ThalesRaytheonSystems

ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a contract by the DGA, the French defense procurement agency, to supply the French armed forces with 12 fixed Ground Master 400 radars and 4 mobile tactical Ground Master 200 radars. In addition to delivery and through-life support of the radars, the contract awarded on 8 December includes installation and civil engineering work for the 12 Ground Master 400 radars.

This contract is part of the SCCOA* air command and control program for which ThalesRaytheonSystems is the main supplier. France has already acquired Ground Master radars for its military bases in Kourou, Nice and Lyon. The radar in Kourou, the first of its kind to enter operational service in France, was inaugurated on 27 November.

Like the other Ground Master radars already integrated within SCCOA, the new radars will be coupled with the NATO ACCS**. They will thus provide airspace monitoring, a high-priority mission under the country's Permanent Security Posture (PSP), and ground-based air defense detection.

Jérôme Bendell, Chief Executive Officer of ThalesRaytheonSystems France, said: “ThalesRaytheonSystems is proud to be contributing with its Ground Master radars to the modernization of France’s air surveillance capability, which is already underway with the delivery of these latest-generation radars for the bases in Kourou, Nice and Lyon.”

The Ground Master 400 and Ground Master 200 belong to the family of 3D air defense radars built by Thales. The Ground Master range of fully digital, multi-role air defense radars is dedicated to airspace surveillance and the protection of key assets and expeditionary forces. These systems are specifically designed to deliver high detection performance, high operational availability, excellent mobility and simplified maintenance. They are able to detect a vast array of modern threats such as UAVs from very low to very high altitude. More than 80 Ground Master radars have been sold around the world.

Note to editors

* The SCCOA program is designed to provide airspace surveillance and control and air operations command capability for French forces. It is an incremental program designed to evolve and increase this capability to assure air surveillance, space situational awareness, control of military and government flights, and air operations command and control.

** The Air Command and Control System (ACCS), for which ThalesRaytheonSystems is prime contractor, is designed to adapt to evolving NATO operations, with continued advancements to AirC2 or additional ballistic missile defense capabilities. ACCS will provide the solid command and control foundation needed for future Alliance missions. ACCS is a smart defense system in that it provides all NATO nations with a common basis for training, standard procedures and centralized maintenance, significantly reducing support costs and increasing staffing flexibility.

About ThalesRaytheonSystems

ThalesRaytheonSystems is an international company specializing in air defense systems, air command and control systems, 3D air defense radars, battlefield and counterbattery radars. Since its inception in 2001, ThalesRaytheonSystems has become one of the defense industry’s most successful transatlantic joint ventures. The company employs 1,400 people and is equally owned by Thales and Raytheon.

03/12/2014 Armée de l'air

Jeudi 27 novembre 2014, la base aérienne 367 de Guyane a inauguré un radar de nouvelle génération : le Ground Master (GM) 400.

Premier de sa catégorie à être déployé en France, ce radar fournira une couverture beaucoup plus étendue que son prédécesseur, le Centaure installé sur le site du Centre de contrôle militaire de Kourou depuis 25 années. L’arrivée du GM 400 s’inscrit dans la modernisation générale des moyens concourant à la posture permanente de sureté (PPS) et à la défense aérienne du centre spatial guyanais.

De plus, la rénovation prochaine du centre de contrôle permettra d’élaborer et de transmettre une situation aérienne de très haute qualité au centre national des opérations aériennes (CNOA). Des possibilités offertes par le programme du système de commandement et de conduite des opérations aériennes (SCCOA). En effet, le SCCOA comprend, entre autres, l’ensemble des radars de surveillance et de défense aérienne du territoire, et ne cesse de renouveler et d’accroître progressivement ses capacités depuis vingt ans.

The AN / TPQ-53 counterfire target acquisition radar of the US Army. Photo: US Army.

13 November 2014 army-technology.com

Trust Automation has been awarded a contract to supply additional motion control systems for the AN / TPQ-53 (Q-53) counterfire target-acquisition radar system.

Awarded by Lockheed Martin, the contract represents the fourth low-rate initial production award for the rugged and advanced vehicle automation system.

The system is designed to automatically level out the vehicle that hosts the radar, and then raise and rotate the counterfire radar.

Trust Automation chief executive officer Ty Safreno said: "Trust Automation has been providing industry-leading power density, accuracy and reliability for the electro-mechanical control systems needed for the next generation of DoD heavy military equipment, including the AN / TPQ-53, since 2008.

"Due to the continued success of the AN / TPQ-53 delivered systems by Trust Automation, a fourth contract has been awarded."

Manufactured by Lockheed, the AN / TPQ-53 is a quick-reaction capability mobile radar system, designed to detect, classify and track in-flight projectiles fired from mortar, artillery and rocket systems, using a 90° or continuous 360° sector search.

With improved operational and physical functionality compared with existing AN / TPQ 36 radars systems, it provides target location of indirect fire systems with sufficient accuracy, enabling more effective detection and counter-battery actions in the battlefield.

Mounted on a 5t truck, the solid-state phased-array radar can be rapidly deployed, automatically levelled and remotely controlled with a laptop computer or from a fully equipped climate-controlled command vehicle.

Previously designated as the EQ-36, the Q-53 radars have been deployed by the US Army during combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The contract's value and additional details, including the number of systems ordered and delivery schedule, remain undisclosed.

31.10.2014 Thales
 

As the focus of naval and maritime affairs has shifted from blue-water operations to coastal and littoral zones, there is a need for improved maritime surveillance capabilities to identify and track intelligent, rapid, highly manoeuvrable and often fleeting targets in all sea states, poor visibility conditions, day and night, and all navigational areas.

Nations are responding to these evolving threats by monitoring their land and maritime borders more closely. They need to be able to detect, identify and track mobile threats on land and at sea.

Searching for boats or vehicles in large areas or along extensive borders, for example, calls for airborne surveillance systems with increasingly high levels of performance and the ability to detect the smallest objects at long range.

As force structures evolve and budgets shrink, operators need to perform multiple missions with the same aircraft, creating a new operational requirement for a solution combining maritime surveillance and ground surveillance capabilities, based on a high-performance multirole radar compatible with a broad range of aircraft types.

Thales airborne surveillance solutions

The AMASCOS^® integrated mission system is built around a tactical command subsystem and a suite of latest-generation sensors to meet the requirements of maritime surveillance and maritime patrol missions.

Thales has constantly developed AMASCOS^® since it was first introduced, and this solution now offers a multimission capability for maritime and land surveillance.

AMASCOS^® is an effective solution for a broad range of mission types:

• Maritime surveillance:

  • EEZ and traffic surveillance

  • Countering drug smuggling, illegal immigration, terrorism and piracy

  • Fisheries monitoring

  • Environmental monitoring

  • Search and rescue (SAR)

• Maritime patrol:

• Anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare

• Electronic intelligence

• Joint operations in the littoral environment

• Border surveillance

• Tracking of highly mobile ground-based threats

• Ground surveillance:

Multirole radar for a diverse threat environment

At Euronaval 2014, Thales is launching its new Searchmaster® multirole surveillance radar with active electronic scanning antenna (AESA) technology.

Searchmaster® is a truly multirole surveillance radar with the ability to meet all the surveillance requirements of five mission types: anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, maritime surveillance, ground surveillance and tactical air support.

This high-performance radar is designed for airborne surface, ground and air surveillance missions. Its outstanding performance includes the ability to track up to 1,000 targets at the same time.

Thanks to its compact, lightweight design (approximately 75 kg), the radar is easy to install and integrate with a system. It is suitable for MALE (medium altitude, long endurance) UAVs, medium-tonnage and heavy-lift mission helicopters and mission aircraft (turboprop or jet-engined), contributing to their multimission capabilities.

Technologies derived from the Rafale radar

The Searchmaster® radar benefits from Thales's technological leadership in active electronic scanning antennas and the know-how acquired in this area on the Rafale combat aircraft programme.

Searchmaster® features an AESA 1D active electronic scanning antenna. The key benefits of this new product are extended range, 360° coverage, electronic scanning in the vertical plane for simultaneous short-range and long-range surveillance, and continuous detection in harsh environmental conditions.

Searchmaster® offers significantly increased operational performance for a wide range of platform types.

9 oct. 2014 Saab

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Aug. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the University of Massachusetts Lowell have announced an agreement to establish a joint research facility focused on the advancement of innovative technologies in a collaborative, state-of-the-art institute. Raytheon is committing $3 million with options to $5 million throughout the next 10 years for establishment of this research facility. 

The Raytheon-UMass Lowell Research Institute (RURI) will feature state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms that will serve as a launchpad for collaboration and learning among UMass Lowell faculty and students and Raytheon employees to benefit both organizations in the pursuit of federal research funding. It will also provide UMass Lowell students with opportunities for research projects and employment opportunities at Raytheon.

"The creation of the RURI presents a tangible opportunity to advance the research and the learning of technologies under development for students and employees alike and will inspire future engineers and drive innovation," said Dan Crowley, president of Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems business.

"We look forward to bringing the expertise of our top-notch faculty together with researchers from Raytheon. This new partnership is just one example of how UMass Lowell is leading the way in collaborating with industry to power innovation and the economy in Massachusetts and beyond," said UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan. "This institute will also provide our students with the kind of real-world experience that is one of the hallmarks of a UMass Lowell education."

"As a co-directed, co-located research environment, the RURI signifies a unique opportunity for Raytheon's university partnerships," said Mark E. Russell, Raytheon vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance. "The RURI will serve as an extension of our current research capabilities and represents a resource across the Raytheon enterprise for the study of advanced materials and flexible circuit technologies, such as printable electronics and nanotechnology."

Initial research will focus on future technologies for radar and communication systems and could expand into other areas as needed. The institute will leverage UMass Lowell's strengths in printed electronics and nanotechnology that align with Raytheon's strategic technology needs including high-frequency printed conformal antennas, carbon-based transistors and photonic devices.

The RURI will be located in the Mark and Elisia Saab Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center, an $80 million, 84,000-square-foot research facility on the UMass Lowell campus that is home to cutting-edge research in a variety of science and engineering disciplines. The center – one of nine new buildings opened by the university since 2009 – was constructed to provide not only UMass Lowell faculty and students with the most advanced research facility of its kind north of Boston, but to also support collaboration with businesses from startups to world leaders like Raytheon.

The building's fourth floor will be specially equipped to house the institute, which will be co-directed by Dr. Christopher McCarroll of Raytheon and UMass Lowell Prof. Craig Armiento, Ph.D., a faculty member in electrical and computer engineering in the university's Francis College of Engineering.

About UMass Lowell
UMass Lowell is a national research university located on a high-energy campus in the heart of a global community. The university offers its 17,000 students bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in business, engineering, education, fine arts, health, humanities, liberal arts, sciences and social sciences. UMass Lowell delivers high-quality educational programs, vigorous hands-on learning and personal attention from leading faculty and staff, all of which prepare graduates to be ready for work, for life and for all the world offers. www.uml.edu

About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2013 sales of $24 billion and 63,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 92 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as cyber security and a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit us at www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter @Raytheon.

18.07.2014 Ria Novisti
 

Le ministère russe de la Défense a enregistré le fonctionnement d'un radar ukrainien le jour du crash du Boeing malaisien et déterminé les localités ukrainiennes depuis lesquelles l'avion de ligne aurait pu être abattu, a annoncé vendredi le ministère dans un communiqué.

"Le 17 juillet, les systèmes de radiodétection russes ont enregistré le fonctionnement du radar Koupol d'une batterie de Bouk-M1 déployée près du village de Styla (30 km au sud de Donetsk)", lit-on dans le communiqué.

"Les caractéristiques techniques des Bouk-M1 permettent de procéder à un échange d'informations sur les cibles aériennes entre toutes les batteries d'une même division. Cela signifie que le missile aurait pu être tiré par chacune des batteries déployées à Avdeïevka (8 km au nord de Donetsk) ou à Grouzsko-Zorianskoïe (25 km à l'est de Donetsk)", précise le ministère russe de la Défense.

Un Boeing 777 de Malaysia Airlines reliant Amsterdam à Kuala Lumpur avec 283 passagers et 15 membres d'équipage s'est écrasé jeudi à Snejnoïe, dans la région de Donetsk, théâtre d'intenses combats entre troupes gouvernementales ukrainiennes et forces d'autodéfense. Il n'y a pas de survivants.

L'avion volait à 10.000 mètres d'altitude. Les autorités de Kiev ont immédiatement accusé les forces d'autodéfense d'être à l'origine du crash, mais les insurgés ont déclaré en réponse qu'ils ne disposaient pas de systèmes capables d'abattre un avion à cette altitude.

18.07.2014 by Airbus DS

Eurofighter Typhoon Capability Manager and pilot Paul Smith highlights the advantages of the new radar system.

July 3, 2014 by David Pugliese

The federal government has awarded an $18.5 million contract to Saab Microwave Canada Ltd. to upgrade radars on the Halifax-class frigates.

More from the government news release:

The contract, for the overhaul of the weapon-control radars onboard the Royal Canadian Navy’s twelve Halifax-class frigates, is part of the Halifax-class Modernization/Frigate Life Extension project.

Each frigate is equipped with radars that give the crew critical visibility of their surroundings, and which are paired with a weapon-control system that allows aircraft, ship and missile threats to be engaged.

The fleet of Royal Canadian Navy frigates is undergoing the following series of modernizations: a new command and control system, a new radar capability, a new electronic warfare system, and upgraded communications technologies and missiles.

Jun 17, 2014 ASDNews Source : Naval Air Systems Command

The MQ-8 Fire Scout prepares to land after its  first flight with a new maritime surface search radar June 16 at Webster Field Annex, Md. This upgrade will increase the situational awareness and threat warning in a high-traffic littoral environment.  Fire Scout's deployment with the new radar is planned for 2015.