BAE Systems has announced that it will continue providing lifecycle sustainment, integration, and engineering services to support U.S. aircraft carriers after being selected for a five-year, $68.5 million contract.
According to BAE, under the Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems (ATC&LS) Engineering Products & Technical Services (EPTS) contract awarded earlier this year, BAE Systems will leverage decades of program history to develop, produce, equip, test, evaluate, sustain, and update the AN/SPN-46(V) Automatic Carrier Landing System.
“With this win, BAE Systems retains a key air traffic control contract that we have held since 1973 to provide industry-leading systems integration capabilities and solutions that ensure the safety of critical carrier-based landing systems,” said Lisa Hand, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems’ Integrated Defense Solutions business.
The AN/SPN-46(V)1 is a Precision Approach and Landing System, manufactured in the United States, by Textron Systems, which is used on aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The radar uses two dual-band radar antennas, which also function as transmitters, to guide planes or helicopters to the ship.
Bond’s across the Atlantic seem too be strengthening
BAE has performed this function for the US navy for almost 48 years as per the article
It would appear that this British world spanning success is constantly in the defence news almost every day particularly within the US sphere.
But it’s good too see that the continuing use of British equipment is seem as a better alternative to home grown so too speak
Yup the British designed landing system was developed for Harrier and F-35B, and later modified for CATOBAR
Agree with all the other posts on this one….side note: that’s some serious air power in the photo..rivals a lot of actual air forces.
At least the US is giving them contracts. They should change their name to USAE Systems.
Why should they change their name?
Tongue in cheek, Bob. I wasn’t serious.
Just hinting at the fact the US has a higher recognition of the importance of defence capability than the UK. I’d like to see the UK at the very least match the US defence budget of 3% of GDP. But wishful thinking I know.
Your right 3% it should be if not more the way the world is.
Well its risen to 2.2%, so going in the right direction.
Something to do with they havnt Butt bummed the USA Taxpayer yet, give them time BAEs is far from a British company and is more Chinese, and i used to work for them.
I’m sorry Johan, can you substantiate that claim with some evidence?
you want proof BAEs screwed the taxpayer, i start with MRA4 that’s a good one, next removing all Harrier Airframes extended flight hours, and then Invincible class removed service parts on the turbine gearbox. YOU NEED MORE and don’t mention SUPA GLUEING BOLTS on. Their only interest is selling off old factory airfields so they can purchase contracts… your proof is in the National Audit Office reports on BAEs.
Sorry that is a load of twaddle. Clearly didn’t work for BAE. BAE is a UK company and saying it is more US and Chinese is ridiculous.
more Chinese parts in BAEs than any country, how many LCD screens in any BAEs products, worked at Dunsfold building Hawks and Harriers. so dumbfuck guess i know a little more than you….
It’s important to note these companies no longer hold a national identity in the sense that British airspace or British petroleum were British companies and so were linked intrinsically to the betterment of the British nation state. These creations of neoliberal globalisation are very much sovereign entities in their own right, having partnerships of convenience with nation states but having no specific belonging to any single nation.
Perhaps that needs to change?
Indeed.
The plot of the video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare should serve as a reminder of the dangers of giving private defence companies too much power. In this plot a fictional private defence company named Atlas Corporation becomes so powerful by selling arms to the nations of the world that the company itself becomes a sovereign entity that rivals the superpowers. Eventually they declare war on the world in an attempt of world domination of course.
Not on my SPCTRUM ZX they haven’t hee hee hee