The navies of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal will equip a number of their surface ships with the Integrated Communications Control System 6 (ICCS6) produced by Portuguese communications specialist EID.Under an M-class frigates user group memorandum of understanding drawn up in January 2008, a contract with a maximum value of EUR15 million (USD18 million) is to be awarded by Portugal for 10 of the company's ICCS6 systems. Working arrangements with the Belgian and Netherlands navies will be established in due course.Five systems will be installed on Portuguese vessels: the Bartolomeu Dias M-class frigates NRP Bartolomeu Dias (F333) and NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida (F334), and the Vasco da Gama MEKO 200 PN frigates Vasco da Gama (F330), Álvares Cabral (F331), and Corte Real (F332). The other five systems will be fitted to: the Royal Netherlands Navy's (RNLN's) M frigates HNLMS Van Speijk (F828) and HNLMS Van Amstel (F831), and the landing platform dock (LPD) vessel HNLMS Rotterdam (L800); and the Belgian Naval Component's M-class frigates BNS Leopold I (F930) and BNS Louise-Marie (F931).In terms of installation, it is planned for 2015 to see a fit on board an RNLN M frigate. In 2016 Rotterdam and an M-class frigate each from Belgium and Portugal will receive a system. Then 2017 will see one Portuguese MEKO and one Dutch M frigate fitted. The remaining Belgian and Portuguese frigates will be fitted in 2018, with systems installed in the last two Portuguese MEKOs in 2019 and 2020, respectively.A number of the vessels already have an ICCS fit: for example, the MEKOs are equipped with ICCS2, while Rotterdam carries ICCS4.The ICCS system is based on a distributed architecture, being composed of network-centric switches, user terminals, and workstations. ICCS6 features Internet Protocol technology and was designed to handle fully a vessel's voice and data communications control.COMMENTEID's ICCS series is fitted to platforms across a range of navies including Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. ICCS6 is due for installation on the UK Royal Navy's Type 26 Global Combat Ship that BAE Systems is expected to build. Overall, ICCS series systems equip more than 120 vessels of different types including patrol boats, frigates, destroyers, landing ships, aircraft carriers, and submarines.http://www.janes.com/article/47758/eid-to-receive-contract-to-fit-iccs6-to-belgian-dutch-and-portuguese-vessels
New Zealand completes ANZAC upgrade source selectionsRichard Scott, London - IHS Jane's Navy International10 July 2014The New Zealand Ministry of Defence (MoD) has rounded off equipment selections for its ANZAC Frigate Systems Upgrade (FSU) with the award of supplier contracts for anti-ship missile defence decoys and torpedo defence systems.The NZD446 million (USD393.2 million) FSU programme is intended to upgrade the surveillance, combat, and self-defence capabilities of the frigates to match current and future threats and to address obsolescence in some existing systems.In a statement to IHS Jane's , the MoD said that UK-based Airborne Systems had been awarded a contract on 3 July to supply its Outfit DLF(3) passive radio frequency (RF) decoy system as part of the FSU.
The Dutch and Belgian frigates have been upgraded with the installation of a new integrated mast that includes alongside with the sensors described above, two new systems, the Sea Watcher and the Gatekeeper. The Thales Sea Watcher 100 a non-rotating active phased array I-band (or X-band) surface surveillance radar for asymmetric threat operations in the littoral, open-ocean and harbour environments with a typical operational range of up to 40 km. Sea Watcher 100 is a 2-D radar sensor designed to detect and track even the most difficult of surface targets, such as boats, periscopes, floating mines and swimmers which have a very small radar cross section, that are moving close to the speed of the waves and as such a near-zero Doppler value and that are down at the surface level, sometimes being hidden from view behind wave tops. Typical challenges that Sea Watcher 100 is designed to meet, include multi-path, surface duct propagation and shadowing effects, as well as backscatter and clutter from the sea surface. The non-rotating, staring nature of its antenna arrays allows it to spend more time looking at each possible target, which helps the processing to discriminate real targets from the clutter. Sea Watcher 100 operates using a single-mode concept, which frees the operator from having to select the best possible mode. The system automatically selects the optimum combination of waveforms to provide short-, medium- and long-range coverage, depending on the characteristics of the sea surface as seen from a certain distance. Sea Watcher 100's solid-state active phased array architecture with advanced beam steering and burst scheduling algorithms, ensures both high Doppler resolution and a high update rate, needed to discern small targets that are hidden in clutter. Short- and medium-range search is performed at two-second update rates, while for long-range search an update is provided every five seconds. The radar displays all ranges simultaneously so that the operator does not notice the mode changes and always has a total picture including all close-in, medium-range and long-range targets.
Um upgrade mesmo que as fragatas continuassem a servir por mais 15 anos até que poderia ser a ideia mais logica, mas vendo a verba atribuida pela LPM á Marinha duvido que se faça um upgrade mais aprofundado ... :cry:
HMAS Anzac (III) FFH 150 18 May 1996 Commander Belinda Wood
HMAS Arunta (II) FFH 151 12 December 1998 Commander David Landon
HMAS Toowoomba (II) FFH 156 10 October 2005 Commander Cath Hayes
HMAS Parramatta (IV) FFH 154 4 October 2003 Commander Andrew Willis
Mas se falamos de fragatas com uma distância temporal maior que as das Portuguesas vamos ver o caso das Perry. Ainda umas quantas em serviço nos EUA e nos outros paises com uma serie de upgrade (inclusive misseis verticais de médio alcance). Nós preferimos as Karel Dorman. Também temos o caso das Niteroi, que duram e duram. Ou das Kortenaer em que apenas uma foi retirada de serviço pelos gregos. Cumprimentos
In a move that drew Beijing’s condemnation, the U.S. approved the sale of four used warships to Taiwan. A statement released by the White House on Thursday noted that U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation formally authorizing the sale of four Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates. The legislation was long-expected. The U.S. House of Representatives initially approved the sale in April 2014, ahead of Obama’s trip to Asia. The same House bill that approved the sale also reaffirmed the United States Congress’ commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act, which saw its 35th anniversary this year.The four Perry-class frigates in question are the USS Taylor, USS Gary, USS Carr, and USS Elrod. All four vessels were commissioned in 1984 and 1985, and have the ability to support sophisticated surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missile systems. The sale was approved under a U.S. excess defense article (EDA) reallocation program.http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/us-finalizes-sale-of-perry-class-frigates-to-taiwan/
