Royal Navy hails Thales sonar systems as ‘world’s best’

Thales UK’s state-of-the-art Sonar 2087 – fitted to a Royal Navy (RN) Type 23 frigate – has played a vital role in a major international anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise in the Gulf of Oman.

HMS Westminster and a Trafalgar-class submarine led the RN’s involvement in Exercise Arabian Shark, a test of Coalition navies to deal with submarines in the Arabian Sea.

During the exercise, the RN described the combined ASW capabilities of the ship and helicopter sonar as being ‘the best in the world’.

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