US Navy pushes plan for multinational RST

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US Navy authorities are urging their counterparts in Canada and the Netherlands to join a co-development initiative for a new shipborne long-range infrared search and track (IRST) system. It would be recalled that representatives from the three services convened in April 1998, to discuss the possibility of consolidating the Dutch-Canadian SIRIUS development program, with the Shipboard IRST effort of the US Navy. The US Navy's Program Executive Office for Theater Air Defense (PEO/TAD) is seeling collaboration amid dubieties over funding for the second phase of the engienering and manufacturing development initiative for the Shipboard IRST, as well as that for follow-on production.

Canada, Netherlands, Government domestic functions, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Search & Detection Radar, Strategic Technology Development, Search radar, Military equipment, Military research, Article

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'X' factor quest heralds a new American revolution

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The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) X-Craft technology demonstrator, officially christened Sea Fighter (FSF-1) and assigned to the US Navy's Third Fleet in San Diego has completed its first year of operational trials and evaluation. It is the largest catamaran ever built in the US at 73 m in length at the waterline, and displacing approximately 1,400 tonnes at full load, and is the first newbuild to be designed and built to the requirements of American Bureau of Shipping High Speed Naval Craft Rules.

Boat Building, Boat building and repairing, Catamarans, Office of Naval Research, Product development, United States. Office of Naval Research

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Merlin completes 'Pearly King' trials at AUTEC

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Lockheed Martin ASIC has completed Operation 'Pearly King,' a seven-week trial of three Merlin HM Mk1 helicopters on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defense. The helicopters were deployed to the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center in the Bahamas, during which the helicopters were required to localize and detect a UK Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine. The test was part of Operational Performance Acceptance Procedure development trials.

Product information, Aircraft Manufacturing, Attack Helicopters, Lockheed Martin UK Ltd.

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