Design of the Hunter-class frigate to be built for Royal Australian Navy by ASC Shipbuilding (source: BAE Systems)
Royal Australian Navy has selected the supplier of integrated bridge systems for its new Hunter-class frigates and passed this technology and design
Anschütz and Raytheon Australia were chosen to supply a warship integrated navigation and bridge system (WINBS) for each these three frigates, which will be built by ASC Shipbuilding under the leadership of BAE Systems Maritime Australia.
At the start of May, Anschütz announced the proposed WINBS passes the system design review by the Royal Australian Navy that included land-based tests.
“We have reached a major milestone in the Hunter-class programme,” said Anschütz head of business development and sales for Australia, André Moritz.
“With our WINBS, we are providing the Royal Australian Navy with a range of new capabilities and options that will enable operational benefits now, and in future, and improve logistics.”
Anschütz developed and tailored its WINBS for these Hunter frigates to include multi-functional consoles for warship electronic chart and information (ECDIS) and naval radar.
These combine navigational and tactical features for situational awareness and are integrated with steering gear control systems and a customer-specific combat management system.
Anschütz said this WINBS has “intuitive user interfaces and extensive functions for tactical navigation and safe operations” at sea, while the “intelligent and sustainable system architecture combines safety standards and integrated redundancies.”
Different variants of Anschütz WINBS are installed on and are being developed for the UK Royal Navy’s Type 26 and Type 31e classes, Germany’s K130 and F125 classes, and the Brazilian Tamandaré programme.
Anschütz was part of Raytheon group until German industrial group Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaftacquired the ship bridge system manufacturer Anschütz from Raytheon Technologies in March 2023.
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