HENSOLDT Australia has overhauled the first of the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Canberra Class vessels’ identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system antenna and pedestals. The company is under contract to repair and perform deep level maintenance of four antennas and pedestals. The HENSOLDT facility already supports the IFF interrogator for the RAN and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
However, the company’s work was expanded to allow local test, overhaul and repair of this additional equipment.
This antenna equipment stands over 2.4m tall, 2.6m wide, and weighs 350kg.
As part of the first step in repair, HENSOLDT ‘conducted a detailed assessment of the antenna and pedestal’, then disassembled the systems and addressed the corrosion together with a heavy duty repaint...MORE
