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WARFARE
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specialist capabilities
The Ultra Electronics Group manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities, Ultra’s broad range of specialist capabilities
generating highly-differentiated solutions and products in the DEFENCE & Ultra focuses on developing specialist capabilities that provide highly-differentiated solutions to
AEROSPACE, SECURITY & CYBER, TRANSPORT and ENERGY markets, customers’ requirements. Eight clearly defined market segments allow Ultra to provide more complex
by applying electronic and software technologies in demanding and critical offerings from across the full range of the Group’s capabilities. The eight capability segments are:
environments to meet customer needs.
Ultra businesses constantly innovate to create solutions to customer requirements that are different from and better Underwater warfare Capabilities related to underwater warfare covering military, paramilitary
and civil domains. These include transducers, hydrophones, sonobuoys,
than those of the Group’s competitors. By applying these differentiated solutions to a wide range of international
sonobuoy receivers, towed arrays, periscope detecting radars, torpedo
platforms and programmes, Ultra has built an exceptionally broad range of specialist capability areas. Where the Group
defence systems, acoustic countermeasures, and surface ship sonar systems.
has a number of complementary capabilities it can also combine these to offer wider solutions. Furthermore, the
products, capabilities and the associated domain expertise uniquely position Ultra to be able to provide system and
sub-system solutions. These solutions are underpinned by through-life management support offerings that ensure the Maritime Capabilities related to signal and power management, operating,
capabilities are delivered and sustained in-service. The Group has an active programme of reinvestment of funds to controlling, supporting and maintaining maritime (surface and sub-surface)
strengthen its capabilities in its specialist markets. military platforms, both manned and unmanned.
Ultra offers solutions to its customers through the design, delivery and support phases of a programme. Ultra’s businesses
have a high degree of operational autonomy so that they provide exceptionally agile and responsive support to customers
and partners normally associated with a smaller business. These benefits of customer focus and agility are augmented by Land Capabilities related to operating, controlling, supporting and
the access to wider and complementary technology and expertise that lies elsewhere in the Group and by Ultra’s strong maintaining land military platforms, both manned and unmanned,
financial position. and the dismounted soldier.
Sonobuoys and sonobuoy receivers Innovation in sonobuoys and airborne acoustic processing
has enabled Ultra to develop state-of-the-art multistatic
Ultra is the world’s leading provider of sonobuoys and software defined sonobuoy active solutions for the maritime patrol aircraft community.
receivers with its products spanning the complete spectrum of airborne and
shipborne ASW requirements.
SONOBUOYS
Due to the proliferation of modern,
stealthy submarines, traditional
anti-submarine techniques continue
to be challenged in their ability to
deliver effective submarine detection
and tracking capability. With facilities
in the US, UK, and Canada, Ultra
remains at the forefront of the TRANSDUCERS
design, development, and AND HYDROPHONES
manufacture of air-launched, The genesis of Ultra’s underwater
expendable sonobuoys. Ultra’s latest capability can be traced back to the
generation of multistatic sonobuoys specialised design techniques and
have just entered service and they are high-quality fabrication processes it
once again restoring NATO’s ASW developed decades ago to meet the
advantage. In order to enable more unique challenges of deep-ocean,
nations to access the capabilities high-pressure applications,
associated with the latest generation associated with ASW. Today Ultra’s
of sonobuoys, Ultra’s has developed transducer and hydrophone
SONOBUOY RECEIVERS
its multistatic active application that offerings include flextensional,
Ultra has over 5,000 receivers
empowers traditional acoustic tonpilz, segmented rings, striped
installed around the world,
processors to achieve the benefits rings, bender, and more
supporting a variety of helicopters,
associated with multistatic operation. conventional ceramic rings, plates,
maritime patrol aircraft, surface
Through Ultra’s partnership in combatants and laboratories. Ultra discs and cylinders. In addition, Ultra
ERAPSCO and Sonobuoy TechSystems continually builds upon its experience is recognised for its work in
(STS), Ultra is able to fulfil all US Navy gained with existing systems, new broadband single crystal
sonobuoy requirements for the P-8, developments, and technology transducers, which has led to it
P-3 and MH-60R air platforms. advances to push performance and becoming the US Navy’s preferred MULTISTATIC ACTIVE (MSA) combinations of sonobuoys are
Internationally, STS sonobuoys have functional envelopes for these highly source for this capability. Innovation in sonobuoys, collectively exploited to produce an
been selected by more than 20 sophisticated advanced receivers, Ultra has over software-defined sonobuoy receivers, accurate target track.
countries to meet their ASW needs. and airborne acoustic processing has
while reducing the cost per channel.
The latest sonobuoy receivers are
5000 receivers enabled Ultra to develop state-of-the-
MSA provides the ability to both
enhance the probability and the range
MINIATURE SONOBUOYS
Ultra is driving innovation in
software-defined wideband solutions, installed around art multistatic active solutions for the
of detection of potential threats.
which receive signals over long maritime patrol aircraft community.
collaboration with key government ranges and with very low distortion. the world. Ultra’s MSA application enhances a
and industry partners and is The flexibility of the systems allows legacy airborne acoustic processors to
undertaking the development of a customers to vary data rates, enabling enable the detection of quiet MSA provides the
miniaturised sonobuoy system. The submarines, in both deep and littoral
aim is to create a series of sonobuoys
a greater flow of information in
today’s increasingly multistatic ASW waters. MSA uses multiple sources
ability to both
optimised for carriage and deployment
from small patrol aircraft, helicopters,
operations. Ultra’s systems save the and receivers, positioned in different enhance the
customer weight and power and are locations, so that echoes from active
and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). compatible with outputs from area sources are picked up by a pattern of probability and the
Ultra is This will allow non-traditional assets networks. Ultra’s products range from receivers, which take advantage of range of detection
to be successfully introduced into the
leading work ASW force mix. The miniaturisation
lightweight systems for use on UAVs
and helicopters, to the wideband
multiple returns from the submarine
at multiple aspects. These multistatic of potential threats.
in developing activity encompasses the broader software defined receiver currently
system including the sonobuoys, the
miniature sonobuoy carriage system, sonobuoy
found on the P-8 Poseidon maritime
patrol aircraft, which offers the
sonobuoys receivers and the wider
communications network. This exploits
ultimate in flexibility and
performance. The wideband receiver
optimised for the Group’s leading capabilities in has the ability to manage the RF
deployment network communications and tactical
data links such that the platform, and
spectrum dynamically, to find and
amplify the signals of interest and
from unmanned the sonobuoys it has deployed, can remove interference.
contribute to the integrated
air vehicles. underwater warfare picture and the
ASW mission.
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Underwater warfare
ACTIVE-PASSIVE INTEGRATED SONAR SYSTEM ISS therefore includes sensor In ISS, the transmitters and receivers
VARIABLE-DEPTH SONAR For surface ship applications Ultra information from active sources and can be physically separated, but
Ultra’s family of variable depth sonars has developed a comprehensive, passive arrays, whether on-board or operate as a single system in a
(VDS) include both an innovative fully Integrated Sonar System (ISS), off-board, and so captures many geographically dispersed network.
single tow, in-line, horizontal comprising both hull-mounted and more detection opportunities, The data from all sensors is
projector array coupled with a towed arrays. It is a modular system, increasing the probability of integrated and is used to generate a
directional passive-receive array as built on a common multi-sensor detection through integration gain. single graphical display. ISS can also
well as a modular dual tow solution processor, within an open Ultra has taken an innovative integrate track data from the
combining the additional source level architecture ‘system of systems’. approach in displaying the output Combat Management System. This
and bandwidth available in tow body It fuses data from own-ship and Ultra’s ISS is a single sonar with from ISS. The aim is to minimise the enables management of the ASW
NEXT GENERATION SURFACE
with echo reception occurring on a off-board sensors to build a complete multiple sensors. It can operate at training burden and workload of tracks, automatic target motion
SEARCH RADAR
separate directional receive array. underwater tactical picture and multiple frequencies and has bi- and operators, whilst maximising their analysis, and track calculation and
Ultra has exploited modern
Ultra’s fully-modular in-line VDS delivers a bi-static sonar capability multistatic functionality to increase ability to utilise the full capability of generation. All the integrated
hardware and software data fusion
marks a step change in technology from hull-mounted and towed array the probability and range of the system to detect contacts. information is displayed on intuitive,
technologies to develop a robust
and capability, away from the sonars. To maximise detection and detection, classification, and interactive, geographically orientated
real-time data aggregation and
constraints of traditional towed localisation of underwater threats, localisation of both submarines and displays. The operators have a
synchronisation radar architecture.
sonars. It needs only a single, the system further facilitates inter- torpedoes. Traditional sonar number of tools, including the option
This has enabled the development
lightweight winch, which can be operability with sensors on third- installations typically treat each sonar to analyse the energy map and to
of an affordable, operationally
…optimises the operated by two personnel.
Additionally, the low weight and
effective next generation surface
party co-operating platforms,
including sonobuoy processing.
as a separate, independent system, simply switch on various geo-spatial
overlays and multiple filters, to aid
search radar. linked via a network, to a combat
probability of footprint of the in-line VDS allows it system. Ultra’s ISS draws together the them in rapidly identifying and
This system is based on the AN/SPS-74
submarine and to be fitted to smaller warships and
those vessels not specifically system that is deployed on the US
information from each acoustic
sensor into single sonar system with
resolving contacts and potential
underwater threats.
torpedo detection designed for ASW operations. Navy’s aircraft carrier fleet and is
designed to detect submarine
multiple sensors.
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Underwater warfare
Flightline Systems
Maritime Systems
Airport Systems
Avalon Systems
Ocean Systems
complex needs across the Defence & Aerospace, Security & Cyber, Transport
and Energy markets.
Business
Herley
PMES
EMS
NSPI
USSI
3eTI
TCS
CIS
The matrix on the left, shows
Underwater warfare Capabilities related to underwater warfare covering military, paramilitary how Ultra’s core capabilities map
and civil domains. These include transducers, hydrophones, sonobuoys, to each Ultra business.
sonobuoy receivers, towed arrays, periscope detecting radars, torpedo
defence systems, acoustic countermeasures, and surface ship sonar systems.
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