Personnel working at Advanced Navigation's vertically integrated manufacturing facility. (Advanced Navigation)
As part of a landmark defence deal, Australian engineering company Advanced Navigation will equip more than 100 of Rheinmetall's Boxer-based heavy weapon carrier vehicles with fibre-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation systems (INSs) in Australia before they are exported to Germany, an Advanced Navigation representative told Janes on 18 December.
In a written statement to Janes on 23 December, Advanced Navigation declined to disclose the specifics of the INS unit, which will be used to equip the Heavy Weapon Carrier (Schwerer Waffenträger Infantrie: sWaTrg Inf) vehicles, but confirmed that the unit would be the same as the one supplied in a previous order for the Australian Army.
On 23 September Advanced Navigation secured an AUD8.7 million (USD5.4 million) contract from Hanwha Defence Australia (HDA) to deliver 138 Boreas D70 units for Redback infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) being built for the Australian Army.
The strategic-grade Boreas D70 digital FOG (DFOG) INS uses closed-loop accelerometers, a dual-antenna real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning global navigation satellite services (GNSS) receiver, and an artificial intelligence (AI)-based fusion algorithm to deliver accurate and reliable navigation and orientation to military systems.
Advanced Navigation declined to reveal the contract value for the FOG INS deal for the more than 100 sWaTrg Inf vehicles due to commercial confidentiality, but confirmed that “every Boxer [Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle] CRV [assembled into sWaTrg Inf vehicles] manufactured in Australia will be equipped with Advanced Navigation's FOG INS technology”. As a replacement for the Wiesel infantry fire support vehicle, the sWaTrg Inf will be a core element of the German Army's “medium forces” category, expected to deploy rapidly over long distances.
Advanced Navigation told Janes
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