Sea eyes and ears: in a never-ending process to keep older and newer ships on the crest of the wave, defence manufacturers in Europe, North America and Africa continue to furnish the world's navies with a range of radar, sonar and electro-optical sensors that can enhance vessel situational awareness and enable them to interface with existing combat management systems and other sensors.

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Naval: sensors

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Sea eyes and ears: in a never-ending process to keep older and newer ships on the crest of the wave, defence manufacturers in Europe, North America and Africa continue to furnish the world's navies with a range of radar, sonar and electro-optical sensors that can enhance vessel situational awareness and enable them to interface with existing combat management systems and other sensors.

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Germany's Atlas Elektronik, a joint ThyssenKrupp and Eads subsidiary since 2006, has enjoyed success with its 9600 Arpa I-band navigation radar, which equips the Royal Australian Navy's Anzac class and the German Navy's Sachsen class frigates. Atlas also produces the CSU-90 hull-mounted search radar which is found on the Dolphin class SSKs of the Israeli Sea Corps, the Marinen (Royal Swedish Navy's) Gotland class and the South African Navy's Manthatisi class diesel electric submarines.

In terms of sonar products, Atlas Elektronik builds the ASO 04-41 hull-mounted system which equips the Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (Royal Malaysian Navy) Laksamana cl...

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