NATO 6S Vertical Launch Missile? Cancelled before mid 1982. BAe Prime Contractor?

[TinWing]

There's an interesting referendence in the May 1982 International Defense Review, p626: "British Aerospace, which was the prime contractor for the now cancelled NATO 6S vertically launched missile ..." The context is the first public showing of vertical launch Seawolf and the suggestion that VL Seawolf "could form the basis of an international project to replace NATO 6S?"

 

[zen]

There's an interesting referendence in the May 1982 International Defense Review, p626: "British Aerospace, which was the prime contractor for the now cancelled NATO 6S vertically launched missile ..." The context is the first public showing of vertical launch Seawolf and the suggestion that VL Seawolf "could form the basis of an international project to replace NATO 6S?"

This one's a genuine puzzler. I've never seen such a reference before.

Had anyone turned up anything on this?

 

[starviking]

The NATO Archives give the attached documents:

PREFEASIBILILITY STUDY REPORT ON A NATO SMALL SURFACE TO AIR
SHIP SELF DEFENCE SYSTEM FOR THE POST-1985 TIME FRAME (NATO "6S" SYSTEM)
SUB SYSTEM TECHNICAL STUDIES
MISSILE DESIGN DETAILED
SUPPLEMENTARY BACKGROUND

AND

PREFEASIBILILITY STUDY REPORT ON A NATO SMALL SURFACE TO AIR
SHIP SELF DEFENCE SYSTEM FOR THE POST-1985 TIME FRAME (NATO n6S" SYSTEM)
SHIP INTEGRATION AND INTERFACES
TARGET DETECTION,TRACKING AND FIRE CONTROL

I tried various searches in the NATO archives, and these were the only ones with “NATO 6S” explicit in the titles.

Marconi Radar History gives this:

“In the late 1970’s whilst working for Eric Gildersleve I became involved in a new NATO study contract (NATO 6S) This was headed by B.Ae (Filton) as the international prime contractor. The main radar companies were Marconi Radar, Thomson CSF (France) and AEG Telefunken (Germany) . Instead of a mechanically steered tracker the radar was to use planar array techniques, providing track while scan multiple target tracking. John Frankham led the project on behalf of B.Ae. My involvement in this particular project was later taken over by Mike Lewis who followed it to the end of the study. In the Naval Division of Marconi Radar work built in part on the basis of the 6S studies, was continued via the study and development of EMPAR (European Multi purpose Planar Array Radar). This was a joint programme of work with Alenia (Italy).”

 

[starviking]

I couldn’t attach one of the documents - it was too large.

 

[zen]

Many thanks Starviking.
I should have thought of the obvious!