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Navy/USMC

IOC Expected Next Month For Navy’s Sonobuoy Submarine Sensing System

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, April 7th, 2014

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IOC Expected Next Month For Navy’s Sonobuoy Submarine Sensing System

P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft. Photo: Navy.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The Navy expects initial operating capability (IOC) for its sonobuoy submarine sensing system in May, an official said Monday. Known as the Multi-Static Active Coherent (MAC), the system is comprised of sonobuoys dropped from aircraft to the ocean’s surface. The buoys then “give reflections off of large targets, such as submarines, and then transmit it to the aircraft for processing and display to the tactical air crew,” program executive officer Rear Adm. CJ Jaynes said here at the…

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