ULM, Germany - The installation of HENSOLDT's ASR-S (Aerodrome Surveillance Radar - Series) radar to modernize air traffic control at German military airfields is progressing. The seventh of 20 radar systems was recently handed over to the German Air Force's System Center 24 (SysZ 24) at Trollenhagen in Neubrandenburg as part of a EUR250 million contract awarded by the German procurement authority BAAINBw.
The ASR systems replace the 30-year-old radars currently conducting military air traffic control. The new radars will be used for approach control at the airfields, as well as airspace surveillance within a radius of more than 100 km (60 NM), safely coordinating military flight movements with civil air traffic. ASR-S radar systems at the German Air Force bases in Laupheim, Büchel, Wittmund and Untermeitingen as well as at the German Military Technical Centre WTD 61 in Manching and at the Army Air Base in Niederstetten are already in operation.
System Center 24 is organized under the Bundeswehr's Weapon System Support Center 2, and is in charge of maintaining ground-based radar and communications systems. The technical staff of the Air Traffic Control Unit of SysZ 24 uses the ASR-S as a reference system in order to support the operational units at the Air Force's military airfields to ensure depot level maintenance.
HENSOLDT says that it has received orders for complete approach control systems from the Swiss Air Force, as well as for different versions of the ASR to be supplied to Australia, Canada, the Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), and the U.K.
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