New missile system for submarines

Press Release
Hamburg, 29.11.2007

Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, and Diehl BGT Defence (DBD) were assigned today with the Technology Award of the German Defence Industry 2007 in the category Exceptional Price. Joachim Reuter (HDW) and Klaus-Eberhard Möller (DBD) got the price as project officers for the proceeding realization of IDAS, a new missile system for diped driven submarines. The Technology Award of the German Defence Industry is granted annually by the Board of Defence Economics in the Federation of German Industry. With the award the security-political impact of innovations in the field of defence technology is underlined. The booth project officers got the award today while a celebration in Berlin, Germany.

IDAS is the short cut for „Interactive Defence and Attack System for Submarines”. It is a missile, which can be used by submarines while driving diped. Primary it is conceptually designed for the defence of submarine hunting helicopters, but can also be used against targets as well on sea as on land. For the first time, an active self defence of an underwater diving submarine is possible. Compared to the existent missile system, IDAS is connected to the submarine with a light wave conductor. The light wave conductor is permanently broadcasting pictures to the infra-red-camera. Thereby the user has the possibility to change shortly the target or to stop the flight.

First flight attempts with IDAS at the end of the last year had been sucessfull. For the project the ARGE IDAS was founded and the spokesman is HDW.

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems / HDW

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, located in Hamburg / Germany is part of ThyssenKrupp groups‘ ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG. Since the merger in 2005, eight European shipyards – Blohm +Voss, Blohm + Voss Repair, HDW-Gaarden, Hellenic Shipyards, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kockums, Nobiskrug and Nordseewerke – as well as several marine technologies companies are combined in one company. ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems is one of the leading systems provider in European shipbuilding with about 8700 employees, a wide portfolio, great technological competence and continuos innovations in shipbuilding.

HDW ist he competence center for the development and the building of submarines within the network. The company is world market leader in building non-nuclear submarines.