By Jun Ji-hye
Korean defense firm LIG Nex1 unveiled a naval combat concept using commercial technology, Wednesday.
During a seminar held at the Ministry of National Defense Convention in Seoul, the company said the new concept can considerably reduce the amount of money and time that are put into the development or upgrading of combat systems as it uses software already available in the market.
The concept can help develop a system that automatically carries out the whole process of warfare from target detection to battle by integrating a variety of arms and other equipment in a naval vessel, the company said.
An LIG Nex1 official said it is a worldwide trend to use technologies that are already on the market in the development of weapons. For example, CA Technologies’ CA UIM IT monitoring system could be used to monitor nodes that make up the combat system, the official explained.
“In the past, the development of a combat system called for seeking new technologies from A to Z for only one project,” he said.
The company said that its advanced concept calls for choosing suitable technologies whose efficiency and credibility has already been proven in the civilian market to develop or upgrade naval combat systems.
“It will be able to drastically reduce cost, money and manpower,” it said in a release.
The firm added that the advance concept is expected to contribute to the Navy’s future upgrading of its combat systems.
“While hardware needs to be replaced with the newest, software could be reusable with upgrades of only necessary parts,” the release said. “It will save money and time, which will help minimize any vacuum in naval power.”
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