Safe ships, safer seas

摘要

With 'Safe Ships, Safer Seas' in mind Kelvin Hughes has developed technologies to give the professional mariner greater situational awareness. SharpEye'" is the world's first commercial solid-state navigation radar. The S-Band variant is now installed on hundreds of commercial vessels over 3,000 GT and the X-Band variant is in use with 17 navies.SharpEye™ is a radical approach to radar design, which changed the technology deployed in navigation surface search radars. The result is a radar with the ability to see smaller targets in clutter and see them at longer ranges. In a recent trial, a yacht was detected and tracked by its mast at eleven nautical miles in Sea State 4 where a comparable magnetron was only able to establish a track at 6.5 nm.