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ROYAL THAI                          be greatly enhanced with the induc-  their needs and what they prefer.
                                            tion of the new radar systems.
                                                                                We are system agnostics, so to say,”
        NAVY TO                             With the new radar systems, the     said Anupam Narain Mathur, Vice
                                            Royal Thai Navy will acquire an intel-  President and General Manager of
        INDUCT TERMA                        ligent tracking unit installed on all   Terma Asia Pacific.
                                            radars. The so-called ET2 embed-    Embedded tracking allows for
        SCANTER 5202                        ded tracker automatically logs the   greater situational awareness which
                                            behaviour of any suspicious vessel,   comes from having a clear picture of
        AND 2202                            no matter the size or shape. “It has   what is going on currently, what has
                                            become a Terma signature to design   happened previously and predicting
        RADARS                              and produce systems with an open    what will happen in the (near) future.

                                            architecture, so customers can freely   While the defense and surveillance
        The Royal Navy (RTN) will soon      choose to add the capabilities they   industry typically have a propri-
        strengthen its coastal surveillance   need into the system that best suits   ety interface where the tracking
        capabilities with new radar systems                                     capability is part of the Command-
        currently being delivered by Terma.                                     and-Control (C2) system, with the
        The current deliveries consist of sev-                                  Terma radars this is not the case. The
        eral radars systems for sites along the                                 Terma ET2 Tracking unit is embedded
        coastline, which will include Terma’s                                   directly into the radars with simple
        Scanter 5202 and 2202 and will be                                       hardware and software add-ons.
        combined with a variety of antennas                                     The reason behind embedding the
        (21 feet, 18 feet and 12 feet compact                                   ET2 into the radar comes down to
        antennas). All  radars will feature                                     making the system compatible with
        Terma’s ET2 embedded tracker. The                                       third-party C2 System Providers.
        RTN is responsible for coast guard                                      The tracking data is translated to
        operations in Thailand and its efforts                                  exportable international protocols
        at detecting and tracking of illegal                                    and can be interfaced by any major
        activities in their territorial waters will                             C2-system on the market.























        KADET DEFENCE                       System will be used for training and   with the company’s family of aerial
                                            weapon evaluation of surface to air
                                                                                targets which includes high speed jet
        SYSTEMS                             missiles by the Philippine armed forces.   powered sea skimming variants and loi-
                                            “We completed the delivery in a record   tering munition platforms.
        DELIVERS AERIAL                     time of less than eight weeks from the   The JX2 Aerial Target System is made
                                            placement of contract to the delivery of   of composite material and powered by
        TARGET SYSTEMS                      the system which included air vehicles,   a two-stroke engine. It has a wingspan
                                            catapult launcher and other ground sup-  of 2.5m and length of 2.6m. Line of sight
        TO PHILIPPINES                      port equipment. We also had to develop   (LOS) range is quoted by the manufac-
                                            a new thermal payload to enable the   turer as over 40km and the aerial target
        Indian drone manufacturer Kadet     aerial target to simulate aerial threats   has an endurance of 45 minutes. It can
        Defence Systems, has completed deliv-  for heat seeking missiles” said Avdhesh   achieve a speed of more than 60m/s
        eries of its JX2 Aerial Target System to   Khaitan, CEO of Kadet DS, while speak-  in clean configuration. The catapult
        the Philippines. The company claims that   ing to Daily News on the sidelines of the   launched aerial target has a maximum
        it is the first Indian company to export   ongoing Defence & Security show.   take-off weight of 35kg and can carry
        a complete defence system from India   Khaitan is looking to expand his foot   role equipment such as a scoring system,
        to the Philippines. The JX2 Aerial Target   print in the SE Asian and MENA region   IR flares, Luneberg lens and ISR camera.
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