The Spanish INDRA will provide the new satellite communication systems for submarines launched by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), one of the leading shipbuilders in the world. The company has recently completed the design of SATCOM systems to be installed in submarines under the Navy Bundeswehr (Armed Forces of Germany). Specifically, these are KU band systems (the 12-18 GHz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave frequency range used by radars), based on a stabilized platform with three axes.
The system would offer a connection of maximum reliability during navigation at periscopic altitude, increasing the capacity of transmission via satellite and reducing the "exposure" time of the surface antenna of the submarines to the radar of other ships and planes. The exploitation of commercial and military satellites envisaged by the system would also reduce operating costs.
At the moment the Deutshe Marine has 6 U-Boote Klasse 212A, corresponding to our class Todaro (Todaro, Scriré, Venuti) built under license by Fincantieri, which will be equipped with the system designed by INDRA, which supplies its communication systems via satellite and for electronic warfare also to the navies of Portugal, Italy and Turkey.
(photo: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems)
