Integrating topside design

摘要

Future warships must accommodate increasing numbers of communication and sensor systems without prejudicing electromagnetic compatibility or radar stealth. The need to resolve these apparently competing demands is driving the development of integrated mast and topside design solutions. Topside integration aboard a modern surface warship presents significant challenges to both the naval architecture and combat systems engineering communities. With a panoply of transmit/receive antennas — each demanding unencumbered access to the electromagnetic spectrum — to be shoehorned into a congested upper-deck estate, mutual compatibility problems arising from issues of electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC) have become an inevitable corollary.