COLOMBES, France, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- French and British companies are collaborating on the international go-to-market for a new high-frequency radar system for coastal surveillance.
Radio Frequency Systems France, a global wireless and broadcast infrastructure specialist, and Britain's BAE Systems Mission Systems, said a cooperation agreement has been signed by the companies for BAE's High Frequency Surface Wave Radar.
The system is the world's first HFSWR solution to utilize a Monostatic Radar with a digitally based architecture that gives continuous, land-based, over-the-horizon coastal surveillance capabilities that exceed the capabilities of conventional microwave systems and traditional platform-based patrol vessels or aircraft surveillance methods.
The HFSWR uses the surface wave propagation effect to provide unique low-level detection and tracking capabilities at ranges beyond the normal horizon limitation, the companies said.
"RFS has a proven record in HF and defense systems, as well as a truly global footprint, and for these reasons we consider them as an ideal company to collaborate with on the go-to-market for our standard-setting HFSWR system," said Les Gregory, radar director at BAE Systems Mission Systems. "This collaboration agreement will offer government agencies and organizations, with stringent coastal surveillance requirements worldwide, excellent service along with an outstanding surveillance solution."
Martyn Kemel, president of RFE's Broadcast and Defense Systems, said that by continuing to innovate on BAE Systems' HFSWR technology, RFS can offer its customers "all of the benefits of BAE Systems' world-leading technology as well as our own recognized engineering, manufacturing, installation and commissioning expertise."
