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Navy/USMC

Remote Minehunting System For LCS Reaches Milestone

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, December 16th, 2011

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A remote minehunting unmanned system designed to quickly find mines for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) recently completed a key reliability milestone during testing, the Navy said yesterday. The Remote Minehunting System (RMS) completed the testing last month at Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] facilities off the coast of Palm Beach, Fla. The system underwent 500 hours of offshore testing that included line-of-sight and over-the-horizon communications checks and full exercise of vehicle control, mobility, maneuvering, and sonar towing capability. The tests were…

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