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Northrop Grumman Starts Delivering AQS-24C Mine Hunting Upgrade

Thursday, February 7th, 2019

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Northrop Grumman Starts Delivering AQS-24C Mine Hunting Upgrade

An AQS-24 being deployed from an MH-53E helicopter. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has finished developing the AQS-24C mine hunting upgrade and delivered the first two systems to the Navy, the company said Wednesday. The AQS-24C upgrades the 24B model by adding in-stride volume search capability to a mine hunting unit deployed from either an MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter or the mine hunting unit unmanned surface vehicle (MHU USV). The basic AQS-24 only supported optical identification and not volume search. Separate form the 24C development program, Northrop Grumman is executing…

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