
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) anti-submarine warfare (ASW) mission package finished two testing milestones and LCS-8 finished combat system qualification trials, the Navy said this week.The Navy is developing ASW mission packages to give selected LCSs a counter-submarine capability. The first milestone was a 10-day Dockside-1 test event on the Dual-Mode ARay Transmitter (DART) mission system towed body and associated launch and recovery assembly components.The DART uses a variable-depth sonar. In May 2017 the Navy awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $28 million…