Lithuania has ordered GEM Elettronica Columbus Mk2 3D navigation radars from Leonardo for its former Royal Danish Navy (RDN) Flyvefisken?class Žemaitis , Dz?kas , Aukštaitis , and S?lis offshore patrol vessels (OPVs). The Flyvefisken-class patrol vessels (“Flying fish” in Danish) are warships of the Royal Danish Navy. The category is also referred to as the Commonplace Flex 300 or SF300 class. Leonardo awarded EUR7.9 million (USD8.9 million) contract to put in and combine the radars, present technical documentation, and prepare their operators by the tip of 2023. Identification pal or foe antennas may also be built-in into the radars.
The Flyvefisken ships have been constructed utilizing an progressive modular design often known as StanFlex: they’ve a typical hull by which containerised weapons or methods will be positioned. This permits them to quickly change roles, sometimes in 48 hours. Moreover the ships are constructed utilizing the sandwich precept – a layer of fiberglass both facet of a core of PVC cell foam. This types the construction from keel to prime of mast. The Royal Danish Navy decommissioned its Flyvefisken fleet in October 2010. The 5 vessels offered to the Portuguese Navy are regionally referred as Tejo class.
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The handover of 480 ton, 54 m-long ex-HDMS Flyvefisken?class follows a refit and removing of Danish naval methods. The refit work contains the removing of radars and digital methods, and the substitute of diesel engines and turbines. New tools being furnished by Lithuania contains engines and turbines with diesel management, communication methods, sensor suites, and fight administration methods. The 4 ships can be used for offshore patrolling inside Lithuania’s unique financial zone and to offer the nation with a maritime search-and-rescue functionality.
GEM Elettronica Columbus is a excessive efficiency, compact, light-weight, multimode 3D radar, developed by GEM elettronica, to offer the capabilities wanted in surveillance missions over air to floor. Columbus is a compact and superior radar system that includes brief to medium-range air and floor goal surveillance together with weapon methods goal designation. Columbus makes use of a particularly light-weight antenna with diminished electrical energy consumption and really excessive reliability. In shipborne installations, COLUMBUS fulfilles the function of secondary search radar for large-medium combatant ships and of major search radar for ship lessons like corvettes and Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV).
