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News Release from: TUV Product Service | Subject: Environmental and EMC qualification testing
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 July 2003
Product Service Completes Empar Test
Programme
TUV Product Service has successfully completed environmental and EMC qualification testing on EMPAR which is to be installed as part of missile defence systems onboard frigates for two Navies.
TUV Product Service has successfully completed environmental and EMC qualification testing on EMPAR (European Multifunction Phased Array Radar), which is to be installed as part of missile defence systems onboard frigates for the French and Italian navies France and Italy are currently producing frigates which will incorporate adaptive defence solutions from AMS, the joint venture between BAE Systems of the UK and Finmeccanica of Italy
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The state-of-the-art EMPAR system simultaneously performs 3D detection, multiple target tracking, and missile guidance for self defence, and local- and medium-area defence.
TUV Product Service's laboratory testing of environmental and EMC characteristics has gone hand-in-hand with a successful programme of launch pad tests, as well as sea trials aboard the Italian Navy Carabiniere frigate.
TUV Product Service has performed vibration, climatic and EMC testing of EMPAR in accordance with MIL Standards.
Worst-case testing has been used to prove the environmental and EMC performance of the EMPAR system Receiver Chain.
TUV Product Service this year celebrates its 50th anniversary as a test and certification organisation, and is a respected supplier of testing and certification services to MoD projects.
The company was selected by AMS as testing services provider to the EMPAR project as one of few organisations which offers the benefit of single-source environmental and EMC testing.
Project Engineering Team Leader Brian Daniel comments: "AMS Ltd (Radar Systems Division) selected TUV Product Service because it is able to carry out a range of environmental and EMC testing, cost effectively, at the Fareham facility.
The team at TUV Product Service made every effort from the outset to ensure that our testing requirements were met, and established a good working relationship with the AMS on-site team responsible for the functional testing of the AMS equipment, throughout the four-month test period.".
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