Naval Group & HAI Sign MoU for FDI Frigate C-UAS capabilities

Naval Team and Hellenic Aerospace Sector (HAI) have actually authorized a Memorandum of Comprehending (MoU) to start talks on incorporating the combat-proven CENTAUR counter-unmanned airplane system (C-UAS) aboard the FDI HN frigates and with prospective growth to various other surface area vessels.

At DEFEA 2025, Naval Information found out that Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) has actually authorized a Memorandum of Comprehending (MoU) with Naval Team to incorporate the combat-proven CENTAUR counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) aboard the Hellenic Navy’s Kimon-class (FDI HN) frigates, with strategies to prolong the combination to various other surface area vessels, consisting of the French Navy’s FDI frigates. This contract intends to boost the frigates’ capacities with a totally incorporated option for responding to the expanding danger of unmanned airborne systems– from discovery to interception.

As formerly reported by Naval Information, the Hellenic Navy’s FDI frigates will be equipped with an integrated radar-electronic countermeasure (R-ECM) system including 2 obstructing subsystems. This consists of the R-ECM subsystem of VIRGILIUS from Italian manufacturer Elt Group— currently in solution on PPAs and readied to outfit FREMM EVO– incorporated with Thales software program right into the ship’s digital war (EW) collection. The enhancement of HAI’s CENTAUR system will certainly better boost the frigates’ EW capacities, with a devoted concentrate on responding to UAVs.

Naval Information checked out HAI’s cubicle and gotten information on the last industrialized variation of the CENTAUR system, whose model has actually been efficiently released in the Red Sea and is presently in solution aboard Hydra-class (MEKO 200HN) frigates, showing solid efficiency versus UAV risks. HAI likewise introduced a brand-new light-weight and portable C-UAS system, called IPERION, which existed to the general public for the very first time.

IPERION C-UAS

IPERION’s portable dimension and modular arrangement make it appropriate not just for big battleships yet likewise for smaller sized systems, such as patrol vessels. It is an anti-drone system developed for the discovery, recognition and neutralization of NATO Course 1 and Course 2 drone throngs.

IPERION incorporates an easy 3D discovery and monitoring capacity with innovative digital countermeasure (ECM) innovations, guaranteeing complete 360-degree hemispherical protection -separately, in mix, or all at once- without the requirement for any type of mechanical or relocating components.

IPERION is enhanced for mast-top installment, allowing reliable ESM, ELINT, SIGINT procedures, and digital countermeasure (ECM) jamming. It supplies a discovery and recognition series of approximately 10 kilometres for UAVs. Its jamming capacities cover all significant satellite navigating systems– consisting of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou. The system’s smart jammer can autonomously and all at once counteract multi-directional drone throngs in all instructions.

CENTAUR C-UAS

CENTAUR is a far more effective C-UAS system than IPERION with added capacities. It is a lengthy variety discovery and recognition system particularly developed to respond to NATO Course 2 and Course 3 groups. The system gives very early acknowledgment of UAV risks at arrays surpassing the 150km, providing extensive situational recognition and important action time for reliable interaction via its incorporated counter-UAS subsystem. Running totally on passive discovery concepts, CENTAUR supplies a reduced electro-magnetic trademark and is practically undetected by aggressive sensing units.

CENTAUR sustains reliable ESM, ELINT, and SIGINT procedures, along with digital countermeasure (ECM) jamming, making use of both passive and energetic sensing units. It supplies automated radiolocation via triangulation and can handle several targets all at once.

The system includes an easy receiver (instructions finder) mounted on the frigate’s pole, efficient in securing onto several targets at incredibly fars away, the gaming consoles for the drivers, while the jammer, mounted on the ship’s bridge roof covering, is from another location managed and can cover the ship’s ahead arc. This jammer can instantly track targets and, as formerly discussed, utilizes a sophisticated formula to make concentrated jamming, suggesting it jams with all its power on the solitary regularity the target is operating, a genuinely cutting-edge attribute of the system.

As formerly reported by Naval Information, CENTAUR is a battle-proven system, having actually efficiently obstructed and reduced the effects of 3 Houthi UAVs in the Red Sea. The settled arrangement of CENTAUR will certainly outfit all 4 Hydra-class frigates and will certainly be enhanced by a long-range electro-optical sensing unit (EOS) by Miltech Hellas, placed near the jammer to guarantee collaborated procedure.

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