Blighter reveals its £25m order book from radar contract wins
Eve Goode
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Blighter has revealed that it has achieved a record £25 million order book in the last 12 months.
The company emphasises that this is following a series of contract wins for its ground-based border surveillance radars, from customers in three different continents.
Middle East and North Africa
In the Middle East and North Africa, Blighter said that it secured contracts to deploy multiple long-range radars along extensive national borders.
According to the company two further orders were for radars integrated into mobile surveillance vehicles:
- First went to Southeast Asia
- Second went to monitor a European Union land border
In addition, a Five Eyes customer ordered 22 ground surveillance radars for deployment on its armoured vehicles.
“A record breaking 12 months”
James Long, CEO, Blighter commented: “It has been a record breaking 12 months for the company with orders totalling more than £25 million for our border surveillance radars.
“This growth is being driven in part by the increasing geopolitical tensions and border disputes globally as governments look to monitor and secure their boundaries effectively from illegal crossings, smuggling, people trafficking and other security breaches.”
Long continued: “However, our success is also fuelled by governments and homeland security experts understanding the compelling business case for investing in COTS-based electronic-scanning radars for border surveillance.
“The Korean Army’s deployment of around one hundred of our radar units on the 250km Korean Demilitarised Zone over a decade ago is testament to this.”
South Korea
Blighter highlights that its solid-state, non-rotating, low power and near zero maintenance radars have been operational in South Korea since 2011.
The radars provide a persistent surveillance capability along the DMZ in what is considered one of the world’s most mountainous countries with environmental extremes of -30ºC in winter and a humid +40ºC in summer.
The company notes that the radars work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, monitoring the 4km-wide DMZ for any human, vehicle or low-flying aircraft incursions.
“An excellent reference site”
James Long continued: “The DMZ has become an excellent reference site for the ultra-reliability and effectiveness of our ground movement radars.
“We are confident that we can build on our sales success in the last 12 months continuing to innovate and by leveraging the growing number of reference sites – our radars are now operational in more than 40 different countries,” he concluded.
B400 series
The company says that the Blighter B400 series radars are well suited to national border surveillance applications with their long-range detection capability, 20-degree wide elevation beam, which provides simultaneous hill-top and valley coverage.
The radars are able to detect very small and slow targets such as a crawling person up to 6.4 km away and a walking person up to 15 km, and a vehicle at up to 32 km, even in cluttered environments.
Pattern of life analysis is now used to enhance situational analysis and the speed and efficiency of threat detection.
Blighter states that the radars also feature Low-Probability-of-Intercept (LPI) waveforms and are designed for rugged operation at fixed and mobile locations and on the move.
