The growing sophistication of anti-ship missile guidance systems has led to research into and development of, equally sophisticated passive and active countermeasures. Maximising the capabilities of these products critically depends upon accurate positioning of the deployed decoy or individual placement of sub-munitions. This feature gives the added advantage of significantly reducing the need for ship manoeuvre to achieve a solution against RF, IR or Dual mode antiship missiles.
Whilst fully compatible with existing Rounds including ASQ Variants, the 12x130mm barrelled launcher is being designed in conjunction with a family of new advanced Variable Range Rounds. The combination of a trainable launcher and a variable range rounds allow payload placement to be controlled in 3 axes giving better ship replication.
With its unique low moment of inertia design features, short reaction time, high positional accuracy and outstanding versatility, the CENTURION trainable launcher offers the perfect solution for soft kill defence, today and into the future.
Significantly increased ship protection with minimum ship manoeuvre against hte most challenging multiple anti-ship missile attacks can only be achieved with a fully variable launch ange and a variable range countermeasure.
Key Operational Features:
- Excellent area coverage minimises the requirement for ship manoeuvre
- Ability to deal wih stream (2nd and 3rd engageements) and multiple angel approach attacksData interface between rounds and combat System to maximise capability
- Vertical barrels, close to centre of rotation, minimise rotational and firing forces
- Accurate payload placement through compensation of ship's movement
- Enables surrogate protection of other high value units
- All munitions available for all engagements
- Ergonomic loading-barrel lowered to optimum elevation
- Small deck footprint
- Available with and RCS reducing conver that also provides environmental protection
- Through Life adaptability for countermeasure upgrades and alternative capabilities
- High reliabiilty, low maintenance component selection minimises Through Life Costs
- Compatible with existing 130mm countermeasures including Active and ASW rounds
- Being designed in conjunction with new Varibale Range Rounds giving 3 axes control of payload placement-improved ship replication