Upgrade of Royal Canadian Air Force Radars picks up speed

Hensoldt, the new Sensor House, is to equip six military airfields in Canada with seven of the most powerful new generation airport surveillance radar (ASR) systems available today. The programme includes one additional training system, and everything is scheduled to be handed over this yeat. The company has successfully passed the fourth Site Acceptance Test of its radar.

“Our ASR offers superior performance in both military and civil air traffic control,” Thomas Müller, CEO of Hensoldt (representing the former defence electronics business of Airbus), said. “Thus, it guarantees absolute reliability in controlling airspace and ensures that people can travel with utmost safety.”

Hensoldt supplies air traffic control and identification systems in the military and civilian sector worldwide. Amongst others, the company equipped the German Armed Forces’ airports with the ASR-S (Airport Surveillance Radar, S-Band) airport surveillance radar and delivers a complete approach control system for the military airfields in Switzerland It has signed further contracts for its new ASR-NG for Australia and in the frame of the MARSHALL programme of the UK. In addition, the MSSR 2000 I secondary radar is deployed by the naval forces of Germany, France, Norway and Finland for military friend-or-foe identification. For civil and military air traffic control, those identification systems are used in countries such as Germany, France, USA, UK, Bulgaria and the Philippines.