UK defence and security electronic system specialist SEA unveiled its trainable decoy launcher system at the 2019 Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition (DSEI 2019) in London.
The new trainable decoy launcher system is capable of a wide range of movement and can rapidly deliver complex patterns of mixed decoys around platforms. (SEA)
The system, which has been developed in partnership with fellow Cohort subsidiaries Chess Dynamics and MASS, has been designed to protect surface ships from current and future high-speed missile and torpedo threats. According to SEA, it features a “sophisticated threat-processing engine” that provides recommendations and responses to a wide range of threats more rapidly than traditional systems, minimising the need to manoeuvre the ship.
“This is about last-minute protection for ships that are being attacked by missiles,” Peter Hodgkinson, SEA business development director for UK and Europe, told Jane’s at DSEI on 11 September. “We’ve been delivering this type of capability in the UK for 30 years, but unfortunately potential aggressors haven’t been standing still, and missile technologies have been moving on very quickly – and it’s all about missile speed. So, the missiles traditionally doing Mach 1, 400–600 miles an hour, are now doing 1,800 up to 3,000 miles an hour, and over the next 10 years it’s projected to be up to Mach 10.”
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