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US Navy orders Sea Guardian Diver Defence Systems

12 February 2002

The Sea Guardian system is designed specifically to detect,classify and track,fully-automatically,divers at ranges suitable for response and countermeasures. These products are considered essential for deployment in underwater protection of Naval and Military assets in today 's hostile threat environment, and are vital to the underwater safeguarding of infrastructure in Homeland Defense and the war on global terrorism.

Sea Guardian can be used either as a stand -alone underwater detection system, with single or multiple sonar heads feeding a synthetic tactical map display, or integrated via a LAN into a mixed, multi-sensor integrated surveillance system.

Thales'unique acoustic mirror sonar design is unaffected by interference from acoustic jamming and passing sea traffic,and uses a demonstrated harbour deployment system. Thales has developed Sea Guardian's sea - proven automatic detection and tracking software to enable the system to be used,with minimum workload, by unskilled operators.

Thales is now in a position to provide this proven system to counter the current terrorist underwater threats to sensitive facilities,such as ports,harbours,bridges and power stations around the world,and to provide Force Protection to ships and other Naval,Military and high-value assets.