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EH101 ready for service with the Italian Navy
The contract for the last batch of 4 aircraft is expected to be awarded at the end of 2003 bringing the Italian Navy order for EH101 to 24. Deliveries of the ASW/AsuW aircraft have now been completed. The HEW aircraft, equipped with a pulse-doppler surveillance radar and APS 784 antenna housed in a 3m diameter radome, is able to detect and track multiple air targets even if embedded in ground or sea clutter, track surface targets and perform real-time surveillance of air and surface threats. Secondary maritime roles include over-the-horizon targeting and surveillance, AsuW and search and rescue. The mission sensors are controlled and integrated through the Mission Computer System (MCS), the core of which comprises two Mission Computer Units (MCUs). The MCS conducts control of mission sensor systems, processing of tactical data received from sensors, collation and data fusion of tactical data, display processing for presentation of tactical data to operators, processing of operator control functions, stores management, data link processing, tactical aids and fault detection and reporting. The MCS manages the operator's interface at crew station level to aid the crew in the execution of the mission. These functions include tactical database management, tactical aids, tactical navigation management and data link management. The EH101HEW is also equipped with a full suite of ESSM, ECM and ECCM interfaced to the MCS.
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The first Italian Navy EH101 in the Heliborne Early Warning (HEW) configuration is making its public debut at Le Bourget 2003. The Italian Navy has to date ordered 20 aircraft with 8 configured for Anti-Submarine Warfare (AS W)/Anti-Surface Warfare (AsuW), 4 for Airborne Early Warning and 8 for amphibious operations.