SAES has successfully completed integration testing of the Deployment and Recovering System (TAHS) with Digital Towed Sonar (DTAS), also made by SAES, ending a comprehensive STW (Setting- to- work) test plan on land in the own facilities, with more than 40 deployments completed without failure.
SOLARSUB S-80 DTAS & TAHS (Digital Towed Array Sonar & Towed Array Handling System) is the third generation of long-range towed array sonar for submarines based on digital technology (DTAS) developed by SAES for the new S-80 submarines for the Spanish Navy.
Last December, SAES finalized the integration testing of the System for Deployment and Recovering (TAHS) with Digital Towed Sonar (DTAS) at its sonar test facilities, located in “La Palma”, Cartagena. Over 40 deployment/recovering manoeuvres has been completed, equivalent to 40 missions since normally sonar is deployed only once per mission.
In addition, these facilities are prepared to conduct training and faults simulation of towed array sonar to submarine crew, since this is an exact replica of the system to install on S-80.