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In a December 2023 article, Naval News purportedly reported that Japan’s ASEV would likely use a rotating SPY-7 configuration rather than fixed-face arrays. I have not seen that article, and I suspect that is speculation at this stage (still ??? ) . I note it purportedly states the ASEV and...

There is a wiki on the Ultra Marine SSTD (also known as "Sea Sentor" in the export market) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSTD The wiki (referencing a UK Defence Journal article) claims the system consists of * an acoustic passive towed array * a towed acoustic countermeasure (flexible) * a...

Navaltoday reports "Defense company Ultra Maritime has received a CA$89 million contract from Lockheed Martin Canada to supply three shipsets of surface ship torpedo defense (SSTD) for the River-class destroyer (RCD) program."...

As noted, out of curiousity, I took a look at the US Department of Defense contract site for aspects that could be River Class destroyer related. Here is another somewhat 'obscure' one I stumbled across (14-June-2024), where < my speculation > this could be for IFF (identification friend or...

Out of curiousity, I took a look at the US Department of Defense contract site for aspects that could be River Class destroyer related. Here is a somewhat 'obscure' one I stumbled across (13-May-2024): https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/3773612/ DRS Laurel Technologies...

Lockheed Martin awarded contract for Canadian Navy AEGIS warships From 17-January-2025, in case any missed this: https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4033640/ Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $280,418,928 cost-plus-fixed-fee...

The Trident news (online) has an article on a test facility build in support of the River Class Destroyer: https://tridentnewspaper.com/LBTF/ River Class Destroyer Land-Based Testing Facility The Department of National Defence (DND) is building a Land-Based Testing Facility on a portion of...

I recall reading MacDonald Dettwiller are to provide a (x-band) target illuminator, but it is not clear to me how (if at all) that integrates to the AN/SPY-7(v)3. I have not looked at this in any detail.

It turns out I was wrong here. A reference was provided in that German language forum (or it was updated since I posted here, which is not likely) where it stated the Canadian SPY-7(v)3 will have 9 RMA (that reference incorrectly used (v)1 ) and the Spanish F-110 SPY-7(v)2 will have 12 RMA...

On the topic of the number of RMA in the different SPY-7 radar variants ... I note a user by the name "Milspec_1967" wrote in a German language forum ( German language reference: https://forum-sicherheitspolitik.org/showthread.php?tid=5492&pid=242434#pid242434 ) : "SPY-7(V)1 that will go on...

I was curious and tried to dig into this a bit further. I could not find any information on the quantity of RMA in any of the SPY-7(v)1, nor (v)2, nor (v3). This is in contrast to the USNavy SPY-6 were a number sources state which class of warship has how many RMA in the different SPY-6...

There are a couple of recent articles in Naval News about the SPY-7 radar, where that is the main air-search radar planned for River Class Destroyer. The following Naval News article is entitled "Live Track Test Demonstrates SPY-7 Capability and Scalablity"...

There is a post on the "Royal Canadian Naval Alumini" page about the River Class and early activity starting in regards to the Aegis Combat System (ACS) Integration Center: I suspect one may need a facebook account to read the link...

As I noted previously, if I had to speculate (perhaps "hope" might be a better word), I would speculate that the River Class destroyer could get the L3Harris Mk 20 shipboard EOSS. Digital Military Aerospace has a couple of articles of interest, such as: ']L3Harris to provide electro-optics...

On the topic of the RIM 116, I recall reading reporting in various news sources that the German frigate Hessen used a RIM-116 based system to defend the warship against a UAV attack (for example "The WarZone" article)...