These will be based on HENSOLDT’s “Kalaetron Attack” and “Digital Shark” which neutralise radar-guided threats

HENSOLDT is cooperating with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd to develop a jamming system for the electronic protection of naval vessels, the company has said on 27 November.

The new system will further develop the HENSOLDT’s “Kalaetron Attack”, a fully digital system that has proven effective in neutralising air defence radars in several test campaigns.

The partners want to offer together first an electronic countermeasures (ECM) system for naval vessels in Germany, which is based on the Digital Shark ECM system and a decoy system (C-GEM) from RAFAEL.

According to Roland Castor, Head of Airborne Electronic Warfare at HENSOLDT, “Radar-guided weapons pose a major threat to naval vessels at sea as well as on land and in the air. We are using the knowledge we have gained from the development of Kalaetron Attack to offer the German Navy a solution to close the capability gap in the self-protection of its ships.”

The Kalaetron Attack jamming system is part of HENSOLDT’s fully digital Kalaetron product family, which is used in various forms in self-protection and signal intelligence systems by the German Armed Forces. In addition to cognitive elements of artificial intelligence, the core components are an entirely digitised broadband sensor and an electronically controllable jammer. This enables a broad spectrum of threats to be detected quickly and countered with pinpoint accuracy.