Northrop Grumman Delivers First AQS-24B Mine Hunting Sonar Upgrades to the US Navy
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., Sept. 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation
(NYSE:NOC) has delivered the first of three lots of mine hunting sonar upgrade
kits to the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division. The
ultimate end users will be the HM-12, -14 and -15 Mine Countermeasures
Squadrons.
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The production contracts from the Navy's PMS-495 are for upgrading 27 AQS-24A
mine hunting systems into the more advanced AQS-24B system. The kits contain all
the components necessary to upgrade the existing 27 AQS-24A mine hunting systems
into the more advanced AQS-24B system. Work is being done in three production
lots. The first production lot has now completed delivery. Production lot two
will deliver in the fall and production lot three in spring, 2017.
The upgrades eliminate diminishing material issues while increasing performance
dramatically by adding the world's first high speed synthetic aperture sonar,
which increases sonar resolution by a factor of three while maintaining 18 knots
speed performance.
"The successful delivery of the initial eight production AQS-24B kits allows for
the first operational employment of High Speed Synthetic Aperture Sonar
technology by the U.S. Navy," said Alan Lytle, vice president, undersea systems,
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.
The synthetic aperture sonar enables the device to scan the ocean floor at three
times the resolution of the earlier system while operating at a speed of 18
knots, nearly twice as much as any other operational towed mine hunting device
in the world. The AQS-24B will be operated from MH-53E helicopters and the Mine
Hunting Unmanned Surface Vessels (MHU) currently deployed in the Arabian Gulf.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative
systems, products and solutions in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, and
logistics and modernization to customers worldwide. Please
visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
Contact:
Fernando Catta-Preta
434-974-2736 (office)
434-242-9283 (mobile)
fernando.catta-preta(at)ngc.com
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Source: Northrop Grumman Corp. via GlobeNewswire
Datum: 21.09.2016 - 14:00 Uhr
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