Peter Furness, Sales Manager – Survivability Solutions
In 2011, QinetiQ successfully demonstrated its rapid and accurate target identification system Pointer™, a Networked Weapon Cueing system. During the past two years the system has significantly matured and, in addition to the land domain, has now been successfully applied to the Maritime domain. Pointer™ was demonstrated on a T23 frigate, HMS Sutherland, berthed alongside London ExCel at Victoria Docks, during the 2013 DSEI exhibition.
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Pointer targeting system, target view.
QinetiQ’s Pointer™ system provides a capability for Royal Navy Fleet to meet the increased threat of Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC), for instance off the coast of Somalia, providing the Fleet with the ability to operate more collaboratively and effectively in highly dynamic coastal environments, react to challenging threats, and reduce the exposure of Naval ships and their crews to danger from agile aggressors.
HMS Sutherland provided QinetiQ with a perfect opportunity to showcase Pointer™. Working in partnership with DSEI, UK Trade & Industry, and Naval Command QinetiQ was able to demonstrate the ability to protect UK naval platforms, and those who serve on them.
The Pointer™ unique Networked cueing system , designed and developed by QinetiQ’s people who know how experts, will be trialled in the near future in order to collect a body of evidence to satisfy Navy Command that the system is a very effective solution.
Senior Officers and crew members from HMS Sutherland, with their professionalism and can-do attitude, enabled a very successful demonstration during DSEI.
