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BMT Defence Services, a subsidiary of BMT Group, has unveiled its Vidar-36 design for an extremely capable and flexible, 3,600 tonne, conventional (SSK) submarine.
BMT’s Vidar-36 offers navies:
BMT’s naval architects and engineers have developed the innovative Vidar-36 whole-platform design in-house. BMT InSpira, BMT’s multi-disciplinary research and design development team, provided design guidance.
Roger Cooper, Managing Director of BMT Defence Services, says: “BMT has an ongoing investment programme in Research and Development and is committed to sustaining the UK submarine design capability. As part of this programme, and offering impressive capabilities and outstanding operational flexibility in an affordable SSK platform, Vidar-36 is a design for the times.”
Vidar-36 can be tailored to meet a navy’s particular requirements. Simon Binns, Vidar project team leader at BMT Defence Services, says: “From the start, Vidar-36 has been designed for flexibility and adaptability; for example modular spaces onboard include a payload bay, mast bays and a weapons stowage compartment.”
Options available include extended-range capabilities, a dry/wet deck hangar, reelable high-frequency communication systems, reelable towed array, and special operations mission packages. As another option, Vidar-36 can launch, operate and recover autonomous underwater vehicles and tethered unmanned underwater vehicles.
A diesel-electric submarine with an optional air-independent propulsion system, Vidar-36 has a length of 79 metres and a beam of up to 8.4 metres. Its other features include:
UDT Europe/RINA Warship 2008: Naval Submarines 9 (10-12 June in Glasgow) – BMT Defence Services will present a paper at the RINA Warship 2008: Naval Submarines 9 conference setting out the technical capabilities of Vidar-36, and will also be exhibiting at UDT Europe.
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