Navy contracts for new frigate optical radar trackers

The South African Navy has awarded Reutech Radar Systems a R8.417 million contract to research and development a replacement optical radar tracker (ORT) for the sea service's Valour-class frigates. Each of the four in commission is fitted with one ORT and one electro-optical tracker (EOT). The contract follows a R1.995 million contract awarded in January. 

The company declined to comment on the nature of the work, but defence analyst Helmoed-Römer Heitman says the deal is probably “partly an upgrade and partly a replacement of the laser range-finders, which I gather did not perform as well as hoped. That is an issue of which frequency is best in the most likely conditions.”
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