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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

MoD scraps plans to network warships

Type 26 frigateThe Royal Navy has no plans to implement the £500m Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) on its Type 45 destroyers and future Type 26 frigates, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed.

The US-developed CEC system would have pooled data from radar and sensors on a variety of Royal Navy and RAF assets to provide a more detailed picture of the surrounding area and threats to all ships and aircraft involved.

The system theoretically allows an incoming enemy aircraft or missile to be detected by any CEC-equipped destroyer or surveillance aircraft, with details relayed to a targeted ship before its own sensors are aware of the threat.

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