Manufacturer catalog

FABA Sistemas

FABA Sistemas was the Spanish naval-systems organization behind the Meroka close-in weapon system and the predecessor identity for the Navantia Sistemas business that now develops combat-management, fire-control, communications, automation, and training systems for naval, land, and air defence applications.

2 weapons

FABA Sistemas connects Spain's older naval-weapons work to the systems engineering organization that developed Meroka and later continued under Navantia Sistemas. The historical FABA attribution remains important for older Spanish Navy systems, while current official material presents the same line of work through Navantia's systems business.

Navantia describes its systems business as a defence-technology unit for naval, land, and air domains, with work spanning combat-system integration, command-and-control, secure communications, automation, training, and lifecycle support. Its naval systems portfolio identifies CATIZ, SCOMBA, DORNA, HERMESYS, SICP, and MINERVA as named systems within the command, control, communications, navigation, fire-control, and platform-control families.

For the F-110 frigate program, Navantia identifies Navantia Sistemas as the Spanish Navy combat management system design agent and describes SCOMBA as the host combat-management layer that exchanges tracks with the International Aegis Fire Control Loop and integrates ship sensors and weapons.

naval combat systemsfire-control systemscommand and controlsecure communicationsplatform automationshipboard weapon systems

Notable Systems

20mm Meroka

20 mm close-in weapon system

Spanish Navy commentary identifies Meroka as a FABA development started in 1975, now associated with Navantia Sistemas.

Sources: Revista General de Marina ASMD

SCOMBA combat management system

Naval combat management system

Navantia describes SCOMBA as a CMS for multi-role combat and maritime-security operations, and identifies Navantia Sistemas as the CMS design agent for the Spanish Navy F-110 frigate program.

Sources: Navantia SCOMBA/CATIZ, Navantia Aegis-SCOMBA Integration

Manufacturer History

1975
Meroka development starts
Revista General de Marina describes Meroka as a FABA development begun in 1975 for Spanish Navy point defence.
Sources: Revista General de Marina ASMD
2025
SPY-7 and SCOMBA integration milestone
Navantia reported a F-110 integration milestone in which real-time SPY-7 radar tracks were displayed on SCOMBA consoles, with Navantia Sistemas' work validating the combat-system architecture.
Sources: Navantia SPY-7 SCOMBA Integration
2026
Navantia Systems active as systems business
Navantia's current systems page describes Navantia Systems as the company's technological-solutions division for naval, land, and air defence.
Sources: Navantia Systems

Predecessors

Fabrica de Artilleria Bazan

Successors

Navantia Sistemas

Website links

Navantia Systems Navantia Naval Systems SCOMBA/CATIZ Navantia home

Open sources attribute Meroka development to FABA, while current official material presents the continuing systems activity under Navantia Sistemas.

Manufacturer Sources

Revista General de Marina ASMDPublisher: Armada Espanola / Revista General de Marina | Note: Supports FABA as the organization that began Meroka development in 1975 and identifies the current Navantia Sistemas continuity. | Accessed: 2026-07-06
Navantia SystemsPublisher: Navantia | Note: Supports the current Navantia Systems business-unit identity and its design, development, integration, support, and naval/land/air defence scope. | Accessed: 2026-07-06
Navantia Naval SystemsPublisher: Navantia | Note: Supports Navantia Sistemas' current naval-systems portfolio, including CATIZ, SCOMBA, DORNA, HERMESYS, SICP, and MINERVA. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
Navantia SCOMBA/CATIZPublisher: Navantia | Note: Supports SCOMBA/CATIZ product descriptions, CMS functions, multi-role mission scope, and official image provenance. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
Navantia Aegis-SCOMBA IntegrationPublisher: Navantia | Note: Supports Navantia Sistemas as Spanish Navy CMS design agent for the F-110 program and the Aegis-SCOMBA integration context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
Navantia SPY-7 SCOMBA IntegrationPublisher: Navantia | Note: Supports the 2025 SPY-7/IAFCL integration milestone and SCOMBA's role as core of the F-110 combat system. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
Commons Meroka Principe de Asturias ImagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the profile image choice and licensing for a Meroka gun aboard the Spanish Navy carrier Principe de Asturias. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
Navantia HomePublisher: Navantia | Note: Supports current Navantia corporate identity, contact page context, and broader naval construction and systems business areas. | Accessed: 2026-07-06

Produced weapons

20mm Meroka, 20 mm close-in weapon system, Naval Systems

1990 Gulf War20mm Meroka20 mm close-in weapon systemBuilt in: SpainThe 20mm Meroka is a Spanish shipboard close-in weapon system built around twelve Oerlikon 20/120 barrels arranged in two stacked rows of six. FABA developed it as a hard-kill point-defense layer for Spanish Navy ships, and Spanish defense sources place Meroka-equipped Santa Maria-class frigates in Persian Gulf War embargo and protection operations without documenting a combat firing.

SCOMBA combat management system, Naval combat management system, Naval Systems

SCOMBA combat management systemNaval combat management systemBuilt in: SpainSCOMBA is Navantia Sistemas' Spanish naval combat management system, a shipboard hardware-and-software architecture for building the tactical picture, allocating sensors and weapons, supporting mission planning, and coordinating command decisions on Spanish Navy surface combatants. Public program reporting ties the architecture to F-110 Aegis/AN-SPY-7 integration work and to the CATIZ export branch used for surface-vessel modernization and antisubmarine-system demonstrations.