Overview:
00L-3 Cincinnati Electronics (L-3 CE) provides a variety of specialized navigational packages for naval surface fleets and the merchant marines, and our advanced IR technology provides greatly improved image resolution in hazy and foggy conditions.
00High technology navigation systems are available for unmatched performance on the open sea, navigational and operational tasks, naval training and exercises, maneuvers, tactics, and fleet operations, especially in fog, smoke and other obscurants where low light cameras and standard binoculars are ineffective.
00L-3 CE IR viewing systems are unparalleled for ships in underway security, harbor maneuvering and docking, and serve as invaluable aids to navigation in a number of ways:
  • Maritime Surveillance: In port security, underway security, navigation assistance for high-speed craft, iceberg/other obstacle detection; Materially assist in man overboard recovery
  • Weapons’ Directors:Rapid location of targets-of-opportunity, precision delivery and low radar cross-section target identification; Radar target confirmation/identification; Non-radar reflecting target detection/identification
  • Optronic Masts: Improved resolution in hazy/foggy conditions and 360º FOV for better target acquisition. Operator may search, detect and identify.

 
 

Maritime Surveillance
00L-3 CE offers technological superiority for 24/7 maritime surveillance in blue water or brown deployment, and lets you take advantage of today's rapidly expanding infrared technologies to improve offensive and defensive surveillance capabilities. Technology is key to winning any battle, and L-3 CE lets you pick your platform for diverse surface fleets and select the specific MWIR thermal imager that is best suited to forearming and forewarning your forward maneuver forces.
00We offer a choice of electronically-advanced IR systems, all with exceptional thermal sensitivity, and all meeting full naval specifications for surveillance, reconnaissance, and target acquisition - for short-range, long-range, and exceptionally long-range missions. They can be installed in gyro-stabilized systems, high-speed patrol boats and other ships.
00L-3 CE's new MWIR thermal imaging modules, which can be installed in vibration-isolated stabilized gimbals, also enhance nighttime surveillance and provide greatly improved image resolution. They expand long-range, high-resolution imagery with a 360 wide FOV for improved target acquisition. In fact, surveillance can be round-the-clock with increased clarity at night as well as longer range, "over-the-horizon" target acquisition.
00In conjunction with conventional long wave IR systems, L-3 CE MWIR imagers provide a dual waveband capability enabling full operational performance in a wide range of naval environments. Imagers are compatible with a wide range of other maritime mission equipment. New Optronic mast technology further extends surveillance capabilities.

  

Weapons' Directors
00New L-3 CE dual-mode laser/thermal image sensors enhance weapons direction and fire control, and enable the ship's fire control officer to view laser designator and the high-definition thermal image.
00This advanced technology permits a broader range of tactics, missions and combat techniques, allowing rapid and accurate location of targets-of-opportunity, coupled with enhanced, precision delivery of lethal laser guided munitions directly onto the target.
00Additionally, the imagers are being fitted as upgrades to legacy platforms. Current retrofits are dated for the DAS on Aegis Class Destroyers.
Enhanced target imaging and weapons direction capabilities of these new technologies include:

  • Custom modular designs for specific mission profiles
  • Long range detection, identification, and remote tracking
  • Search and seizure operations
  • Weapons control and direction systems for naval and maritime deployment
  • Electro-optical surveillance
  • A wide field of regard for improved situational awareness, 24/7/365

00In summary, L-3 CE IR imagers provide long-range detection (longer than most comparable competitive units), recognition, identification, and tracking of targets over longer distances in daylight, in total darkness and/or in less than ideal weather conditions.

  

Optronics Masts
00Advanced L-3 CE IR technology increases combat capabilities for Navy submarines. As such, we have been selected to provide new-design MWIR thermal imaging modules for the non hull-penetrating Model 90 Universal Modular (Optronic) masts of next-generation VIRGINIA class, fast attack nuclear submarines. We have also been specified to retrofit the Type 8 periscopes of last generation LOS ANGELES class submarines with this latest IR technology. Furthermore, the same modules will be installed on the Optronic masts of the Royal Navy's next generation of ASTUTE class fast attack nuclear submarines.
00The new technology provides enhanced nighttime surveillance and greatly improved image resolution in hazy or foggy conditions. Images can be stored digitally for later display and analysis. It provides long-range, high-resolution imagery with a 360 wide FOV for better target acquisition. This significant breakthrough permits installation of the IR module directly on the non-penetrating Optronic mast, eliminating the need for a periscope. The new technology facilitates faster, safer surfacing for the submarine for improved reconnaissance, not always possible with a periscope.
00The manufacturer has integrated a variety of sensors into this model: thermal imaging, CCD-TV, 35mm photographic camera, laser range finder, electronic video stadimeter, radar early warning, radar finding antenna, GPS and COMMS. Sensors that increase a submarine's effectiveness against surface ships, aircraft and land targets are in increasing demand for improved mission effectiveness.