MARTE Family

The Marte family of anti-ship weapons has been designed to meet the modern challenge offering options for a range of both air and surface launch platforms

Protecting and enforcing the battlespace in the open ocean and in the often cluttered confines of the close littoral is a major aspect of modern naval operations. In peacetime, an effective anti-ship deterrent is equally important to ensure national sovereign interests, whether in home or international waters. Given the advancement of ship defence systems, the modern anti-ship weapon must be equally advanced, capable of defeating the latest ECCM and of operating at a safe stand-off range at any time of night or day and regardless of the prevailing weather conditions.

The Marte family of anti-ship weapons has been designed to meet the modern challenge offering options for a range of both air and surface launch platforms. Therefore, as well as Marte’s clear operational advantages in delivering lethality with precision against targets ranging from FACs to frigates and corvettes, the flexibility within the family offers distinct logistics advantages to the user in terms of stockpile management, handling and maintenance.

Operational advantages

• Multi-platform for operational and logistics flexibility
• Fire-and-forget
• Stand-off range survivability for air launch
• All weather, night and day operations
• High defence penetration capability thanks to high subsonic sea-skimming profile and terminal manoeuvres
• High resistance to ECCMs
• Open sea, littoral warfare and, for Marte ER, land attack capability
• Effective against a wide target spectrum
• Flexible and quick Mission Planning System allowing salvo firing and engagement of multiple targets