Authored by Kevin Wong Ridzwan Rahmat of Jane's International Defence Review

Development of the Towed Reelable Active Passive Sonar (TRAPS) system was first announced at the Undersea Defence Technology Asia exhibition in Singapore in mid-January 2016. 

The system is targeted at operators of smaller surface combatants and unmanned surface vessels (USVs) that require anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. 

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions' INDAL Technologies business unit is collaborating with underwater acoustic systems developer

GeoSpectrum Technologies to develop TRAPS. The latter is providing the sonar hardware and processing software for TRAPS, while Indal Technologies is responsible for its winch and cable system.

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