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Littoral Combat Ships Reach Anti-Sub Milestones And LCS-8 Finishes Trials

Littoral Combat Ships Reach Anti-Sub Milestones And LCS-8 Finishes Trials
USS Montgomery (LCS-8) conducts a live-fire exercise with its MK 110 57mm Gun as part of the Combat Systems Ship Qualifications Trials (CSSQT) when the crew demonstrates complete operability of the ship’s combat systems suite. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

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…

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