BAE Systems to Provide Maritime Indirect Fires System for UK Royal Navy
February 28 2023 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New automated Ammunition Handling System combined with Mk 45 gun
to give UK Royal Navy critical advantage at sea
BAE Systems, Inc. has received a $219 million (GBP181 million)
contract to equip the Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates with five Mk 45
Maritime Indirect Fire Systems (MIFS). The system combines the
5-inch, 62-caliber Mk 45 Mod 4A naval gun system with a fully
automated Ammunition Handling System (AHS).
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BAE Systems, Inc. has received a $219
million contract to equip the UK Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates with
five Mk 45 Maritime Indirect Fire Systems (MIFS). (Photo: Business
Wire)
“We have innovated and customized the Mk 45 system to provide a
critical and reliable fully-automatic ammunition handling solution
that revolutionizes medium and large caliber naval gunnery,” said
Brent Butcher, vice president of the weapon systems product line at
BAE Systems, Inc. “The customized, lightweight and compact Mk 45
gun system with AHS provides our customers commonality with the
U.S. Navy, a highly-reliable system with security of lifecycle
support, and access to future technology upgrades. We look forward
to continuing to build these critical partnerships and delivering
the MIFS system to our U.K. customer.”
The Type 26 frigates, the first of which is due to be delivered
to the Royal Navy in the mid-2020s, will be one of the world’s most
advanced classes of warships, with the primary purpose of
anti-submarine warfare. In addition to its range of advanced
weapons and sensors, it will also be capable of countering piracy,
delivering humanitarian aid and disaster relief. As part of the
ships’ world-class capabilities, this innovative, automated naval
gun solution will help the Royal Navy increase crew productivity,
reduce sailor safety hazards, and improve the operational
capability of these advanced warships as they deliver protection to
the Royal Navy’s Continuous At Sea Deterrent and Carrier Strike
Group.
Engineering and program support for the new contract will be
performed at BAE Systems’ Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky
production facilities. BAE Systems shipped the main equipment for
the first MIFS system at the end of 2022 with installation to
follow in 2023.
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