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Spy on Aegis in Norway.


The Fridtjof Nansen berthed at Izar iz·ar  
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 Shipyards in Spain was the launch platform for the initial activation of the first Aegis Weapon System equipped with Lockheed Martin's new Spy-1F radar. This phase marked the initialisation Noun 1. initialisation - (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
initialization, low-level formatting
 of the integrated Weapon System (IWS See iPlanet Web Server. ) testing for the first of Norway's five Aegis-equipped frigates. The Spy-1F provides the frigates with upgraded performance of Evolved Sea Sparrow Sea Sparrow was developed from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile as a lightweight "point defense" weapon that could be retrofitted to existing ships, often in place of existing gun-based anti-aircraft weapons.  and Standard Missile-2 capabilities. Lockheed Martin is responsible for system integration of all IWS elements for the Fridtjof Nansen class frigates; work which includes sensors, communications and weapons. Since this launch and following yet another major Spanish shipyard restructuring, Izar has been renamed Navantia.
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Title Annotation:Digest
Publication:Armada International
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2005
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