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Navy/USMC

L3Harris Clears Design Milestone For Navy Sub-to-Torpedo Link

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025

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L3Harris Clears Design Milestone For Navy Sub-to-Torpedo Link

The L3Harris IPLCS is a fiber-optic tether connecting a torpedo to the origin vessel, providing data in real time. Credit: L3Harris

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] this week said a fiber optic tethered communications link it is developing for the Navy to better guide submarine-launched torpedoes to their target recently passed a key design test, paving the way for the company to prove out the manufacturing of the technology. Under an Other Transaction Agreement L3Harris won in 2019, the Improved Post-Launch Communications System (IPLCS) completed Design Verification Testing in the fourth quarter of 2024 as part of the proof of design phase to…

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