The Royal Netherlands Navy’s first upgraded Goalkeeper close-in weapon system recently passed its sea acceptance trials aboard landing platform dock HNLMS Johan de Witt, Thales – the company in charge of the system modernization – announced.
The test came six years after the company was contracted for upkeep modifications in 2012.
Goalkeeper proved its mettle against air targets which included detection, tracking and elimination of Kinetiq’s Banshee propeller and jet drones with traditional and modern inbound attack flight paths. For surface targets, the same procedure was carried out with Kinetiq Sprite II drones.
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