{"id":29340,"date":"2023-05-12T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=29340"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:24:52","slug":"rheinmetall-taeuschkoerpersystem-mass-for-australian-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/rheinmetall-taeuschkoerpersystem-mass-fuer-australische-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"rheinmetall: MASS decoy system for Australian Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">From a Rheinmetall press release<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Royal Australian Navy has ordered MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) ship protection systems from Rheinmetall for its three Hobart-class destroyers and ten Anzac-class frigates. According to Rheinmetall, the first systems are to be delivered this year and full operational readiness will be achieved in 2027. The order, with a volume of 125 million euros, is the largest to date for the company's Maritime Defence Systems division. The contract includes options to equip the entire Australian fleet, which could increase the volume fivefold.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Rheinmetall in Australia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The order is the first naval contract of its kind that Rheinmetall has received in Australia and represents a significant milestone in the expansion of its industrial presence in Australia. Through technology transfer, Rheinmetall Defence Australia will be able to manufacture the system under licence on the fifth continent, install it on board seagoing units and commission it locally. Australia is the sixteenth user state.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29343\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29343\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-1024x575.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-768x431.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-1536x863.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-1080x607.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-750x421.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn-1140x640.jpg 1140w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aus-ff-155-fg-anzac-ballarat-usn.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal Australian Navy, Anzac-class frigate HMAS Ballarat. Photo: US Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Decoy system<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">According to Rheinmetall's description, the MASS ship protection system protects ships and boats from a wide range of threats (e.g. from attacks with anti-ship missiles or LASER-guided weapons) - on the high seas as well as in coastal waters or on rivers. Protection is guaranteed in all relevant wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. MASS can be installed on ships of any size. It can be integrated into existing command and weapon deployment systems with little effort or operated as a stand-alone system. As standard, MASS consists of one to six directional launchers, each of which can fire 32 so-called Omni Trap decoy ammunition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We trust that<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The German Navy currently uses 50 MASS launchers to protect its ships. The frigates F123, F124, F125, the corvettes K130 and the Frankenthal-class minehunters are equipped with them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aus einer Pressemitteilung der Firma Rheinmetall Die Royal Australian Navy hat f\u00fcr ihre drei Zerst\u00f6rer der Hobart- und die zehn Fregatten der Anzac-Klasse bei Rheinmetall Schiffsschutzsysteme MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) bestellt. Wie Rheinmetall mitteilte, sollen erste Systeme noch in diesem Jahr ausgeliefert und die volle Einsatzbereitschaft 2027 erreicht werden. Der Auftrag mit einem Volumen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,42,49],"tags":[1802,228,1102,281,5588,2034,5589],"class_list":["post-29340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologie-news","category-news","category-schiffsbau-news","tag-abwehr","tag-australien","tag-mass","tag-rheinmetall","tag-royal-autralian-navy","tag-schutz","tag-taeuschkoerper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}