Ships

Playing a global pioneering role in the application of systems engineering in surface ship platforms, Frazer-Nash is a key supplier to government defence departments.

Playing a global pioneering role in the application of systems engineering in surface ship platforms, Frazer-Nash has been a key supplier to government defence departments for over three decades. We offer an extensive range of expert services to our clients.

Specialist capability for surface ships

As recognised system engineers and problem solvers, we provide a broad catalogue of services associated with surface ship equipment procurement and support, product and system development, and assurance and certification. These services support a wide range of organisations within the the UK's MOD, the Australian Government Department of Defence, industrial primes, and second tier suppliers. Our mathematical and analytical modelling techniques, combined with our advanced naval architecture and marine engineering capability, spans ship platform, ship systems and subsystems across the entire lifecycle.

Our skills and services

  • Systems engineering
  • Acquisition support
  • Electrical system architecture modelling and design
  • Supply chain management
  • Supportability techniques and analysis
  • Equipment and platform design
  • Ship/aviation interfacing
  • Naval architecture (ship design, assessment)
  • Safety and environmental management
  • Explosives safety
  • CBRN system design
  • Structural finite element analysis
  • Thermal management and analysis
  • Aerodynamics
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Survivability
  • Signature modelling
  • Blast and impact/fragment propagation