Northrop Grumman Delivers First AQS-24B Mine Hunting Sonar Upgrades to the US Navy
September 21 2016 - 8:00AM
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@ngc.com
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Source: Northrop Grumman Corp. via Globenewswire
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