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Rheinmetall has added an anti-torpedo capability to its Multi Ammunition Softkill System, or MASS.

The current concept offers the possibility of launching up to four anti-torpedo decoys from a single MASS launcher.

Existing launchers can be easily equipped with the new anti-torpedo upgrade kit without modification.

At Euronaval 2014 Rheinmetall was displaying the MASS system equipped with anti-torpedo technology from French defence contractor DCNS.

Rheinmetall also continues to offer the Multi Ammunition Softkill System variant MASS_ISS (ISS stands for “Integrated Sensor Suite”).

It features integrated radar ESM systems and laser warning systems.

Threat analysis conducted by Rheinmetall and a number of its customers shows that the threat to seagoing vessels in littoral waters from small weapons such as guided missiles (i.e. asymmetric threats) is basically undetectable using current shipboard sensor systems.

In order to bridge this capability gap, Rheinmetall is cooperating with the Israeli company Elta to integrate its NavGuard technology into MASS.

NavGuard is a radar-based projectile warning system capable of detecting even small incoming threats.

MASS has already undergone successful live-fire testing in combination with NavGuard.

New Zealand has decided to equip two of its MEKO-class frigates (jointly procured with Australia) with MASS.

The contract, issued by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence under an ANZAC modernisation program, is worth €4.2 million.

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