Subtics
Submarine Tactical Integrated Combat System
According to its performances and integration level, SUBTICS® optimizes every sensors and weapons capabilities and guarantees operational efficiency as required by today’s Navies. SUBTICS® fits to every types of new and modernized submarines.
As a benefit for the French Navy, SUBTICS® equips all SSN and SSBN, modernized or on new construction, and has been chosen to equip next SSN generation (BARRACUDA type).
On export markets, it is selected to equip every new submarines of AGOSTA, SCORPENE and ANDRASTA types as well as to modernize commissioned submarines such as U209, A12 and A17.
On board SUBTICS® have demonstrated their outstanding level of performances among which a unique capability to detect and track, at a high speed, very distant tracks as well as to successfully launch several types of weapons.
Key features
Submarines are increasingly faced with various missions: littoral and blue-water operations, stand-alone missions or within a naval force. To meet all these operational requirements, SUBTICS® offers the following “sea proven” capabilities :
- Highly efficient acoustic sensors including low frequency arrays and scalable data processing offering outstanding detection abilities of distant targets at high speed
- Highly efficient non acoustic sensors on the surface and at periscope depth offering a high level of discretion
- Complete communication facilities (from VLF to SHF), noiseless and fully integrated allowing submarine to interact in real time within a force
- Data synthesis from every sensors (optical, optronic, R-ESM and C-ESM, radar)
- Advanced, automatic and interactive target motion analysis
- Tracks identification and classification functionality
- Track fusion and association through an interactive track management tool
- Tactical, command and engagement aids with regard to geographical and tactical environment
- Tactical Data Links operation
- Fire and weapon control
- Torpedoes : F17, SUT 266, TP617, Black Shark, F21
- Missiles : SM39 and land-attack capability
Sales records
SUBTICS® currently in operation at sea :
- French Navy : every SSN and SSBN Le Terrible
- Chilean and Malaysian Navies : Scorpène SSK
- Pakistan Navy : Agosta 90B SSK
- Modernized submarines for Navies of South America and South-Eastern Asia (U209 SSK and others)
Over 20 SUBTICS® currently under production :
- French Navy : next generation of Barracuda SSN and rest of SSBN fleet
- Indian Navy : Scorpène SSK
- Numerous navies from South America and Asia as part of their submarines fleets modernization
- Brazilian Navy as part of their 5 submarines procurement