September 2009 - terma

C-GUARDC-Guard in use by Royal Australian Navyand U.S. NavyTerma’s Soft Kill Weapon System(SKWS) can be found in some of theworld’s largest navies.Patrolling the waters in the world’smost dangerous conflict zones is a taskthat requires an efficient and carefullydesigned self-protection system.In conflict zones, a naval vessel isconstantly exposed,and it needs to beable to takeU.S. Navy's new LittoralCombat Ship, USS Freedomimmediate action, should it be exposedto an attack.C-Guard is the self-protection systemthat makes this possible – also knownas Terma’s field proven Soft KillWeapon System (SKWS).About C-GuardThe secret to the C-Guard success hasbeen a combination of fixed andreliable hardware controlled by hightechsoftware, allowing customerprogrammed algorithms.Installation and maintenance costs arelow adding to an overall affordable andcompetitive life cycle cost.Future “standard” 130 mm decoys haveoptions for variable range andvelocity, giving same coverageand protection compared totrainable launchers.C-Guard can be offered in threedifferent configurations depending onthe ships design, type and size.Australia and USARecently, Indonesia and Morocco havedecided to purchase the Termatechnology, and this has resulted in thesigning of C-Guard contracts with thenavies in both countries.The Royal Australian Navy alsodecided on C-Guard as their futureself-protection capability, which is whythe system is presently installed onboth Australian Adelaide Class Frigates(FFGs) and Hobart Class Air WarfareDestroyers (AWDs).C-Guard has been contracted for theU.S. Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship,USS Freedom (LCS1) – the prototype ofa naval vessel designed to operate inthe littoral and able to counterasymmetric threats designed and builtby a Lockheed Martin led industry team.USS Freedom was delivered to the U.S.Navy in only six years from initialconcept, half the time of traditionalshipbuilding programs. In May, itsuccessfully conducted its second andfinal round of U.S. Navy acceptancetrials off the Virginia coast. The trials –which were a coordinated effortbetween the Navy and the LockheedMartin team – included operationaltesting of the vessel’s propulsion,communications, navigation and missionsystems, as well as all related supportsystems. Freedom recently completedsuccessful structural test firings; the57-mm gun was fired 70 times; RollingAirframe Missile (RAM) fired tworounds; Terma Soft Kill Weapons System(decoys) and 50-cal machine guns.TERMA UPDATE . SEPTEMBER 2009 11