Advanced maritime autonomous threat detection and surveillance
BlueSentry™ is a secure autonomous payload equipped for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Undersea Surveillance mission. The payload comprises the Thales Thin Line Array with onboard edge processing, secure sea to shore data transmission of acoustic intelligence and shore based Human Machine Interface (HMI) for realtime Acoustic Analysis. Multistatic operations are made possible through the addition of the Remote Active Sonar Systems (RASS) array. BlueSentry is a USV/UUV platform agnostic solution with a Space Weight Power and Cooling (SWaP-C) budget that allows for installation on a wide range of vessels.
Thales Thin Line Towed Array is one of a number of next generation sonar array playloads designed and manufactured to support Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) through deployment on surface and sub-surface platforms. It comprises of world class acoustic sensor technology for active and passive applications, and signal processing, recording and reporting system.
A BlueSentry team or fleet of USVs, integrated with our sonar arrays, will be capable of remaining operational for extended periods of time, in any weather, autonomously patrolling large areas of ocean performing underwater ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) missions. Missions that would have previously required the deployment of peopled assets for many days to complete will be able to be conducted remotely using the BlueSentry team of autonomous vessels at a significantly reduced cost of coverage.
Another advantage of the BlueSentry system is that it is capable of being deployed both at surface and sub-surface depths enabling detection, classification and localisation of craft on the surface or below the water that generate acoustic noise or produce acoustic reflections. In addition to the system's autonomous detection capabilities, the Thales RASS element of BlueSentry will enable covert communication to allies below the surface using long-range low frequency underwater communications.
BlueSentry™ is a trade mark of Thales Australia Limited and is registered in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Viet Nam, Japan, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and European Union.