Thales to supply Satellite Communications System to the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen class frigates
15:16 GMT, January 19, 2009 Thales has been awarded by the Norwegian Defence Procurement Division a contract to deliver a new satellite communications system for the five Norwegian Nansen class frigates.
This very comprehensive contract will significantly enhance the effectiveness of the Nansen class frigates, enabling them to communicate over secure, high bandwidth satellite links, both with other national and allied force elements.
Thales will deliver a complete SATCOM solution for the Nansen class frigates, including state-of-the art military SHF and an advanced dual band Ka/Ku solution engineered to give the best trade-off between performance and installation constraints on-board the frigates. The Thales solution is based on the sea-proven SURFSAT Naval SATCOM family, with leading-edge multi-band and stabilised system, using multiple transmission systems ensuring seamless on-board integration.
The terminals will be fitted with a range of modems including M21e, the most advanced SATCOM Electronic Protected Measures (EPM) modem from Thales. Based on the EPM modems product line already selected by NATO, M21e is a software modem fully compliant with NATO STANAG 4606 ensuring interoperability among allied forces. It provides a future oriented full IP adaptive waveform and on-board Electronic Support Measures (ESM) compatibility, in a very compact housing easy to integrate on-board. The Norwegian Navy will thus benefit from high data rate SATCOM links enhancing the availability, confidentiality and integrity of voice and data information against potential jamming, interference and intrusion threats.
“The contract confirms Thales as a leading provider of naval SATCOM system solutions, and will strengthen Thales’s partnership with the Norwegian Defence”, states Glenn Pedersen, Managing Director of Thales Norway. In line with Thales’s multi-domestic strategy, Thales Norway will rely upon the expertise of Thales worldwide to rapidly deliver a world-class, secure, innovative and cost-effective SATCOM solution for the Nansen class frigates.
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Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group, addressing defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide. Thales’s leading-edge technology is supported by 22,000 R&D engineers who offer a capability unmatched in Europe to develop and deploy field-proven mission-critical information systems. To this end, the group’s civil and military businesses develop in parallel and share a common base of technologies to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. The group builds its growth on its unique multi-domestic strategy based on trusted partnerships with national customers and market players, while leveraging its global expertise to support local technology and industrial development. Thales employs 68,000 people in 50 countries with 2007 revenues of €12.3 billion.
