DOHA, Qatar. Oct 29 (Interfax-AVN) - The Rosoboronexport state- owned arms trading company is exhibiting new anti-terrorist developments of the St. Petersburg-based Akvamarin enterprise at the 4th international exhibition Milipol Qatar 2002 that opened in Doha on Monday.
The developments are intended for comprehensive protection from underwater terrorism, Akvamarin Director General Boris Melnitsky told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday. "The underwater sphere is among the most unprotected from terrorist attacks," he said.
Combat divers capable of secretly approaching any installation and inflicting strikes on it pose extreme danger, the director went on. Small and super-small submarines can be used to deliver divers to the area of operation; moreover, they can inflict independent torpedo strikes.
The Anapa-ME hydro-acoustic station exhibited in Qatar provides for detecting subversive divers moving with the help of flippers or special assets, Melnitsky said. The station is supplied together with the multi-barrel anti-saboteur rocket launcher produced by the Degtyarev plant in the town of Kovrov. The station makes it possible to destroy detected divers in the automatic mode.
In addition, Akvamarin exhibits the Amga hydro-acoustic system intended for detecting submarines, among them small and super-small ones. The system includes several autonomous hydro-acoustic stations fixed underwater. "Information on the detection of a submarine is transferred to the command post automatically via either an underwater cable or radio channel," Melnitsky said.
Participants in the exhibition have taken a keen interest in the Paket hydro-acoustic station intended for the detection of incoming torpedoes. The station is a part of the Paket anti-torpedo system that is being designed by the Moscow-based Region state- owned research and production enterprise. The system ensures destruction of incoming torpedoes in the automatic mode, Melnitsky explained.
The Paket system and Anapa-ME station can be installed in warships and civilian vessels, as well as in oil platforms.
Specialists say that developments exhibited in Qatar provide for comprehensive protection of any sea object from underwater terrorists. Many of them have no analogues in the world.