By WENDELL MINNICK
TAIPEI — Maritime territorial disputes and security problems have caused the Asian market for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to continue expanding.
China’s aggressive behavior in the East China and South China seas over the past two years has rattled the region. And continued concerns over piracy and other security issues in the Malacca Strait and Singapore Strait feed Singapore’s quest for “sense-making” by the military, say regional defense industry sources.
“Everyone wants to know what’s going on in the South China Sea,” said one Singapore-based defense industry source. “Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines want to know what’s going on in that battle space,” he said. “And you need C4 [command, control, communications and computers] to process the ISR.”
Nations in the region are looking at procuring maritime patrol aircraft, UAVs, beacon location systems for ships, anti-submarine warfare systems, coastal surveillance systems and land-based surveillance, including high-frequency surface wave radar and locatable over-the-horizon radar.
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