ENFIELD, North London, UK. Royal navy officials tasked Kelvin Hughes to deliver additional SharpEye radar systems for the new Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), the Tamar and HMS Spey.
Militaries worldwide are increasing funding for radar systems that can track small targets such as rubber boats in high clutter, littoral environments as well as in the high seas. In this Q&A with Spike Hughes, Sales and Marketing Director for Kelvin Hughes, he discusses how solid-state, pulse Doppler radar technology enables those capabilities and also is being developed to counter the threat of small unmanned aircraft. Edited excerpts follow.
PARIS. Kelvin Hughes is demonstrating their Single Mast Solution (SMS), SharpEye SxV radar, and command and control display software, CxEye, at Eurosatory 2014.