Saab Launches 5 Radars for Total Air Domain Awareness

16.05.2014 Products
Saab Launches 5 Radars for Total Air Domain Awareness

Saab Launches 5 Radars for Total Air Domain Awareness

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Defense and security company Saab extends its surface radar portfolio, with the introduction of five all-new complementary Giraffe radars for land and sea. This strengthens the current product offering but also takes the Giraffe firmly into the long-range air surveillance domain and puts an entirely new capability onto the market.

Saab’s combat-proven surface radar portfolio, including the renowned Giraffe AMB and Arthur radars, has been improved and expanded through the addition of new technologies and designs. Along its existing products, Saab is now producing new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar variants for land and sea.

These radars use leap-ahead design techniques that put them in a class of their own in terms of performance and capability. For the first time Saab’s Giraffe radars also offer a solution for long-range air surveillance. There is now a Giraffe option for every air surveillance and air defense application, on land and at sea.

Saab has more than 30 years of AESA design experience. This depth of experience - and Saab’s understanding of radar cost, performance, reliability and packaging issues - results in a unique technology solution. Saab’s advanced surface-based radars are highly-effective against multiple ‘difficult’ air targets in the most dense and challenging operational environments.

Members of Saab’s surface-based radar family for land and sea now include:

  • Giraffe 1X and Sea Giraffe 1X: short-range radars fitted with an X-band AESA, offering a comprehensive set of 3D functions with impressive performance and flexibility.
  • Giraffe 4A and Sea Giraffe 4A: medium- to long-range radars, combining air surveillance, air defense, sense and warn and weapon locating capabilities in a single, low-footprint S-band AESA-based unit.
  • Giraffe 8A: a long-range S-band AESA radar, including anti-ballistic missile capability, that pushes performance and functionality to a new level.
  • Giraffe AMB and Sea Giraffe AMB: Saab’s existing short- to medium-range surveillance radar and command and control system for ground-based air defense. These combat proven C-band systems have now been enhanced with increased range and coverage.
  • Arthur: Saab’s combat proven C-band medium-range weapons-locating system which detects and locates enemy fire. With 80 units sold to date, the system’s performance and functionality has now been further enhanced.

Saab’s In-Service Solutions is another vital part of the overall radar family product offering and is currently contracted by more than 20 customers worldwide. Saab’s radar logistics support removes 100% of real-life risks related to cost of ownership and has proven to deliver 98.5% long-term mission availability.

Finally, Saab also offers a Common Radar Upgrade solution, providing upgrades to or extending the lifetime of customers’ existing (non-Saab) radar systems.

 



 
 

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