20.02.2022, 07:54
Zitat:US Navy Looks Again At VDS Options For New Frigatehttps://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...w-frigate/
The U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) this week issued a Request for Information (RFI) for a Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) System for the future Constellation-class frigate. [...]
Thales with the CAPTAS-4 system seems to be a strong candidate to equip the Constellation-class. [...] Naval News learned from a number of sources over the past couple of months that French defense electronics company Thales and its CAPTAS-4 system was being considered to be fitted aboard the future frigates of the U.S. Navy. Sources include a French member of parliament, two different naval shipbuilding sources and several French Navy sources. Those sources were directly involved with the matter or familiar with it because they have heard about ongoing talks.
Contacted by Naval News this week, a Thales spokesperson could not confirm or deny that the company will indeed answer NAVSEA’s RFI. The spokesperson however did confirm that a total of 80 CAPTAS systems (across all variant: CAPTAS 1, 2 and 4) have been sold to date. Thales also confirmed to us that CAPTAS-4 has already been integrated and tested with the U.S. Navy’s AN/SQQ-89 Undersea Warfare Combat System. This was done in the 2010-2012 time frame as part of the Advanced Demonstration Model (ADM) for the U.S. Navy LCS program. For this program, Thales was competing against Raytheon and eventually lost.
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