From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:43:27 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "U.S. Navy Completes First Major Technological Milestone in Baltic Sea" |
U.S. Navy Completes First Major Technological Milestone in Baltic Sea by Katherine Mapp Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division October 12, 2016 Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division mine warfare (MIW) experts completed their first major milestone of the Allied Munitions Detection Underwater (ALMOND-U) Initiative, a joint project with an organization under the German Navy, on Sept. 19, 2016. NSWC PCD partnered with Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research for ALMOND-U via the Coalition Warfare Program and the Naval International Program Office. The MIW experts traveled to the Baltic Sea to conduct underwater surveys with various technologies, including acoustic and magnetic sensors, operating side by side with comparable German systems. This enables each nation to examine the differences and to learn from one another with the goal of advancing technologies and techniques for detection, classification and mapping of bottom and buried munitions. The joint survey was conducted with both nations deploying these unmanned underwater vehicle(UUV) based detection systems over multiple sites known to be contaminated with unexploded ordinance (UXO) dating back to World War II. ... For the entire release, see https://www.dvidshub.net/news/211927/us-navy-completes-first-major-technological-milestone-baltic-sea -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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