US moves to beef up very-shallow-water MCM
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The US Office of Naval Research hopes to allocate around $35 million for the advanced development of technology for mine countermeasures in very shallow water and the surf zone over four years. The effort aims to produce equipment and compenents that could be employed by diver teams, as well as onto small autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles, for mine countermeasures in 40ft to 10ft water depths and 10ft to the high-water mark surf zone. The project will focus on sensors, communications, navigation, signaling and neutralization technologies that allow detection, classification, identification, mapping/reporting, and deactivation of moored, bottom and buried mines.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1998
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In search of lighter, smaller electric guns for future tanks
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The development of the next-generation electric gun for the main battle tanks of the future continues amid a number of disappointments. The research is proceeding along two lines. One of these is the development of electromagnetic launchers, a direction pioneered by FMC in 1987 for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Another is the development of the electrothermal-chemical gun. However, problems such as the provision of sufficient electrical energy for the gun systems have seriously hampered the success of the early efforts.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1999
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US expands program to fnd alternatives to antipersonnel landmines
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The US Army's Communications-Electronics Command and Tank-automotive Command are soliciting bids for the Track3 of the Antipersonnel Landmine Alternatives program. The program aims to develop various concepts that could replace the mixed-mine sytems which combine anti-personnel and anti- tank devices. Track 3, with a budget of $228 million between FY2000-05, is seeking devices that could be fielded by 2006.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1999
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