Brazil’s IACIT readies over-the-horizon coastal surveillance radar

IACIT is offering its OTH 0100 surveillance radar complex, shown here in a mock-up, for the Brazilian Navy to monitor the country’s jurisdictional waters. (Victor Barreira)

Brazilian technology company IACIT Soluções Tecnológicas, partially owned by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), completed installing its OTH 0100 over-the-horizon coastal surveillance radar system.

The radar, installed at the Albardão Lighthouse in Brazil’s state of Rio Grande do Sul, is scheduled to be temporarily utilised by the Brazilian Navy, according to a 13 April letter of intent. A contract could be signed later whereby IACIT will sell the radar service, and not the radar itself, to the navy.

The OTH 0100 is designed to detect and track any ships entering a country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), even if they have their Automatic Identification System (AIS) transmitters off, Jonas Xavier, new business co-ordinator at IACIT, told Janes.