Kongsberg Maritime is commemorating the finalizing of an agreement with Vard to supply its market-leading finders to theNorwegian Coastguard The finders will certainly be made use of aboard 3 brand-new craft prepared for launch in between 2022 and also 2024, changing the existing Nordkapp- course vessels.
KONGSBERG will certainly gear up the brand-new 136-metre, ice-strengthened vessels with its SS1221 finders, which flaunt acoustic homes that make them preferably fit for numerous procedures securing Norwegian territorial waters, specifically those calling for release in shallow-water settings.
The SS1221, mainly created for ASW procedures and also efficient in discovering torpedoes or various other little items in the water column, is an energetic hull-mounted finder which uses innovative monitoring formulas.
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Its electronically-stabilised transferring and also getting light beams can be slanted to adapt to difficult audio rate accounts, with its incorporated Sound Propagation Model identifying the optimum tilt setups and also improving the Probability of Detection (COVERING) proportion. The SS1221 finders will certainly be provided to the Coastguard total with retracting hull devices and also gateway shutoffs for ice defense, guaranteeing risk-free and also effective procedure.
“We are very pleased to have been selected by the Norwegian Coastguard, and to further strengthen our position as a principal supplier of coastal and shallow-water sonar equipment,” claims Thomas H. Dahle, Director of Sales at KONGSBERG.“The Coastguard have to rely upon the most advanced technology available in order to fulfil their responsibilities effectively, and this contract is another resounding testimony to the deep level of trust the KONGSBERG brand has accumulated over our many successful years of trading.”
