ESG will probably be modernizing the Counter Battery Radar (COBRA) weapon location radar in service with a number of NATO forces. On the finish of final 12 months, the European procurement authority chargeable for COBRA in-service help, Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d’Armement (OCCAR), awarded intensive contracts for the implementation of the Mid-Life Replace (MLU) to ESG as prime contractor. The contracts embody a brand new sign processor, a brand new navigation system, and new software program with intensive enhancements to reinforce radar efficiency. Beforehand, the contracts for a brand new knowledge system and a brand new prime energy generator had been awarded to ESG.
COBRA remains to be the world’s strongest weapon location radar. Its essential process is the exact detection of enemy artillery, rockets, and mortars. It’s characterised specifically by an extended reconnaissance vary, excessive resistance to digital countermeasures, and full mobility. COBRA was developed in trilateral cooperation by Germany, France, and Nice Britain and launched in NATO forces by 2007 and exported to a number of nations up to now. In 2001, the trilateral program for the procurement of COBRA programs was built-in into OCCAR. For the previous 10 years, ESG has been chargeable for the in-service help and additional growth of the COBRA system as prime contractor and System Design Authority. This partnership between ESG and OCCAR-EA underlines and reiterates the commitments of France and Germany in favor of bolstered European cooperation within the fields of Safety and Defence and of growth in the direction of a extra united, resilient, and sovereign Europe.
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With the brand new sign processor, ESG is integrating a form-fit-function resolution from Thales. That is characterised by a significantly elevated computing energy with concurrently lowered complexity. To optimally make the most of the potential, ESG is creating new knowledge system software program for this objective. Along with quite a few new features, it incorporates additional developed radar knowledge processing to enhance positioning efficiency and accuracy.
The brand new navigation system replaces the earlier laser gyro, which has change into out of date, with a European product from IMAR and Thales. It additionally integrates a GPS functionality and likewise improves accuracy. The Mid-Life Replace will considerably enhance the fight functionality, reliability, and logistical help (in-service help) of the COBRA system. The excellent operational worth of COBRA will thus be maintained effectively past 2035.
ESG (Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH) has been one of many main German suppliers of design, integration, operation, and in-service help of advanced, security-related digital and IT programs for greater than 5 a long time. In Germany and internationally, ESG supplies services and products for patrons from authorities authorities, the fields of protection and public safety, and trade. ESG is a licensed aviation firm for plane and aviation tools for the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) and an aviation engineering firm according to EASA Components 21J/G and EASA Half 145. Impartial course of and know-how consulting are a few of ESG’s key competencies. Know-how switch between markets is what makes a big contribution to our clients’ added worth.
