The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) is putting the acquisition of Decoy Cartridges (DC), specifically 130MM Naval Countermeasure Rounds, up for tender.
In order to protect DALO ships from hostile missile attacks, DALO has a need for acquiring DC's.
Royal Danish Navy has used DC's as a soft kill weapon against missile threats for the last 30 years.
DALO assesses that the use of soft kill in combination with hard kill will have a significantly positive impact for the probability of self protection against hostile attacks.
The purpose of acquiring DC’s is to be able to create a ‘false’ radar signature (Radar Cross Section (RCS)) sending the radio signature away from DALO’s ship. In order to induce the missile threat to attack the ‘false’ signature it is required that the ‘false’ signature is larger than the signature released from DALO’s own ships. In order to make a larger signature than DALO’s ship, it may be necessary to use more than one DC.
The Royal Danish Navy vessels are currently using the C-Guard system produced and delivered by TERMA A/S with launcher type MK 137 (NSN 1055226149753) to launch the Decoy Cartridge.
Loading of launchers will possibly be done prior to going to sea and loading/reloading may occur when vessels are operating at sea.
In order to cover DALO's demands, DALO will acquire 130 mm Seduction Decoys.