The Paper describes an Undersea Surveillance Barrier which offers a solution to the problem of 24 hour port surveillance, and the detection of small high speed offensive craft. The proposal provides for a triple barrier with detection modules at 5, 13 and 24 kms offshore from the focal point. For a vessel travelling at 30 Knots this will give a warning time of 26 minutes on breaching the first barrier.

The barrier operates 24 hours per day, seven days a week and 52 weeks a year without interuption, and monitors entry to and movement across an area of over 90,000 Hectares - how many patrol craft would be required to achieve this?

And CHECKMATE can deliver this level of efficiency at a significantly lower capital cost than that of the number of patrol craft which would be required to attempt to match it, and at effectively zero operational cost it - and at effectively zero operational cost to be compared with the operational costs of keeping a number of patrol vessels at sea.

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