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PROFITS UP AT VOSPER THORNYCROFT (Continued from page 17) has provided the machinery con- trol and surveillance systems as well as steering gear and stabiliz- ers.

To improve radar cross-section signature of the ship, the hull form and superstructure have been carefully designed to minimize radar reflection and measures have also been incorporated to improve the infrared signature.

The second vessel, SNV Al

Mua'zzar, will be delivered later this year and is scheduled to arrive in Oman early in 1997.

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The Qatar Emiri Navy has also, meanwhile, accepted a new VT first-of-class vessel — the fast strike craft QENS Barzan, built at

VT's yard in Portchester. Design of the 183.6-ft. (56-m) craft has been evolved from similarly sized ves- sels delivered to Oman and Kenya, using the same basic hull form but with a totally redesigned super- structure and internal arrange- ment. Operational and accommo- dation spaces are arranged to reduce motion and noise, better access has been provided along the upper deck and a second deck level has been incorporated. Power is supplied by four MTU diesel engines, each driving through a reverse/reduction gearbox into a fp propeller.

The vessel also benefits from VT's own advanced Machinery Control and Surveillance System (MCAS), a microprocessor-based ship platform management package which enables one-person control of main propulsion, electrical and auxiliary systems from the bridge. High quality VDU color graphics enable the operator to examine the status of any ship system displayed on a mimic diagram.

Several versions of the design have been proposed including an anti-submarine version with vari- able depth sonar and torpedo arma- ment, and an EEZ patrol version for coast guard or customs cus- tomers. The EEZ versions would be capable of carrying large fast seaboats, or have the ability to operate a small helicopter for search and rescue duties.

Three additional vessels in the

Qatar series are on order. The sec- ond vessel, QENS Huwar, will be delivered later this year. The third ship, QENS Al Udeid, was launched in March, and the final vessel will be launched in August.

RRD order boost

Babcock Rosyth Defence and other members of the

Babcock International Group are to wait until the fall of this year for a decision from the U.K. Ministry of Defence enabling them to purchase the Scottish military repair facility Rosyth Royal Dockyard (RRD) at Rosyth in Fife.

A multi-national engineering business which still retains 25 percent of its former Energy Division following sale last year to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Babcock

International hopes for a positive conclusion to current negotiations, especially as RRD has recently received a multi-million dollar order boost. Contracts have been placed for $75 million, one-fifth of which is to be eorned for the decommissioning of the Polaris submarine HMS

Resolution. Refit of the trawler-style Island class offshore patrol vessel HMS Guernsey will cost another $7.5 million, enabling the vessel to continue to protect extensive British interests in the North Sea oil fields and patrol the 200- mile fishery limit. Most lucrative, however, is a $45-mil- lion deal to refit HMS Cardiff. Work has already com- menced on this contract which includes a substantial pack- age of alterations and additions.

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