LCS-I for Israel, Saudi Arabia and a few others?
- From: "KDR" <humannospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Mar 2006 17:09:08 -0800
This week's Jane's Defence Weekly reported Lockheed Martin may offer a
modified LCS design to Israel and a few other countries including Saudi
Arabia.
The requirement of the Israeli navy is to mount a fixed four-face
phased-array radar, which can be either indigenous EL/M-2248 MF-STAR or
American SPY-1K, and Mk41 VLS on their new surface combatants. Ingalls
once proposed a 4,200-ton design with SPY-1K and a 16-cell Mk41 VLS
buried in the superstructure while AFCON, a consortium of Bath Iron
Works, IZAR, and Lockheed Martin, marketed a 2,600-ton corvette with
SPY-1K and a 4-cell Mk41 VLS installed in the forward hull.
It would be interesting to see what missiles the Israeli navy wants to
fill in the Mk41 VLS with. Barak-2, a naval surface-to-air missile to
be jointly developed by Israel and India, can be a candidate if the US
agrees to integrate it with the Mk41.
http://www.janes.com/defence/naval_forces/news/jdw/jdw060328_1_n.shtml
http://www.afconships.com/products.html
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=62510#compstory
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