HPR for NATO Submarine Rescue System
Kongsberg Maritime Ltd’s, Waterlooville facility, has entered into a contract with Rolls Royce, to provide underwater navigation, tracking and communications systems to the NATO Submarine Rescue System. The NATO Submarine Rescue System will enter service at the end of 2006, replacing the current UK rescue vehicle, LR5, which was dispatched to the scene of the last major accident, involving the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea in August 2000. Kongsberg Maritime Ltd will provide an integrated suite of systems providing the rescue forces with vital information to expedite rescue missions. Kongsberg will provide networked command information systems that will integrate a multitude of underwater and above water sensors and communications systems.
The contract covers ten years of design, build and operational support for the system, which will be based at Her Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde, in Scotland. The new rescue system will primarily support the three partner nations, but will also be on standby to assist any nation anywhere in the world, complementing other systems operated by Sweden, the USA, Italy and Australia.
