The New Zealand Herald:
New Zealand warship HMNZS Te Kaha is being kitted out with a multi-million dollar supersonic missile defence system. The RNZN Anzac-class frigate has sailed to Canada where it will undergo a multi-million facelift at Seaspan’s Esquimalt shipyard in British Columbia.
The warship will have upgrades undertaken by Lockheed Martin Canada to its surveillance, self-defence, and combat capabilities, including a new combat management system (CMS), radars, above water sensors, and hull-mounted sonar upgrade.
And its RIM7P Seasparrow missile will be replaced with MBDA’s British-designed Sea Ceptor vertical launched Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAAM(M)) missile system. The new missile can reach speeds three times the speed of sound and can attack multiple targets simultaneously, protecting an area of around 1300 square kilometres over land or sea.
