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NAVAL FORCES NEWS FOR WEEK ENDING 22 NOVEMBER 2002
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US Navy's focused mission ship concept studies awarded
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more here . . .
[Jane's Navy International - 19 November 2002]
Wider roles for RMS?
Lockheed Martin has made a study of potential future upgrades and
modifications
to its AN/WLD-1 Remote Minehunting Systems (RMS) to broaden
considerably
the role and scope of missions that the system could undertake,
even before
it enters into full-scale service with the US Navy (USN).
[Jane's Defence Upgrades - first posted to http://jdu.janes.com
- 16 November 2002]
Design options revealed for US Navy combat ship
Details have emerged about radical new designs that could be used
for
the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), and the industrial teams
that
are offering them (Jane's Defence Weekly 3 July).
[Jane's Defence Weekly - first posted to http://jdw.janes.com
- 16 November 2002]
Canadian Navy cuts back
The Canadian Navy is cutting back on operations and ship
maintenance as
it copes with the continuing high-tempo demands of the US-led
Operation
'Enduring Freedom' (OEF) and decreasing budgets.
[Jane's Defence Weekly - first posted to http://jdw.janes.com
- 16 November 2002]
QinetiQ tests integrated waste management demonstrator
UK research and technology group QinetiQ has begun a 45-day trial
of a
land-based Integrated Waste-Management System Technology
Demonstrator
(IWMSTD) designed to prove out enabling technologies that could
realise
an environmentally independent warship for the UK Royal Navy (RN)
in the
2015 timeframe.
[Jane's Navy International - first posted to http://jni.janes.com
- 12 November 2002]
Upgraded SLAM-ER enters USN service
The US Navy's (USN) AGM-84H Stand-off Land Attack Missile-Expanded
Response
(SLAM-ER) has been upgraded with a new Automatic Target
Acquisition (ATA)
system and is now cleared for operational use following a positive
operational
evaluation report signed on 3 September.
[Jane's Navy International - first posted to http://jni.janes.com
- 12 November 2002]
Dutch team explores integrated topside design
Thales Nederland and the TNO research institute have embarked on a
three-year
study to investigate a future integrated topside sensor suite
under contract
to the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) Directorate Materiel.
Two-thirds
of funding for the programme is coming from the Ministry of
Defence and
the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
[Jane's Navy International - first posted to http://jni.janes.com
- 12 November 2002]
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