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Navy Accepts Last Part Of LCS Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Package

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018

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Navy Accepts Last Part Of LCS Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Package

The USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) sailing out of San Diego in route to Singapore in 2014. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy accepted on Nov. 30 the last component of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) anti-submarine warfare (ASW) mission package (MP), the Dual-mode Array Transmitter (DART) mission system, the service said on Dec. 4.DART was accepted only after finishing a “rigorous” acceptance test regime at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Fort Pierce, Fla.DART is one of the four major components of the ASW mission package along with the SQQ-89 acoustic processing, the Multi-Function Towed Array, and the MH-60R helicopter.The…

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