MARSS makes progress in South-East Asian navy contract

MARSS has announced progress in its project to outfit multiple South-East Asian corvette-class combat vessels with its NiDAR defence platform.

Factory testing of the company’s systems has been successfully completed, while manufacturing of equipment for the first two vessels has been completed and delivered to the client. MARSS is providing a suite of technologies, including a Sentinel sonar system, produced by Sonardyne, and Teledyne FLIR EO cameras. These next generation sensors, alongside the client’s legacy radar system, will all be assimilated into NiDAR’s single situational awareness picture, both on a large touchscreen on the bridge and a mobile option for flexible monitoring anywhere on the vessel. 

The integrated system, combined with MARSS’s AI platform, creates a 360-degree security ‘bubble’, enabling the detection, classification and tracking of asymmetric threats across all domains – in the air, on land, on the surface and below water. 

The project timeline remains on track, with the first vessel’s system fit-out by MARSS scheduled to begin in June 2025, and handover expected in August 2026. The second vessel’s installation is set to commence in February 2026, with delivery in April 2027.