US Navy to terminate DART sonar development with Raytheon

[rebewranger]

US Navy to terminate DART sonar development with Raytheon
By Megan Eckstein
 Mar 31, 08:48 PM
 
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy will end its work with Raytheon Technologies developing a sonar for littoral combat ships and frigates and will instead buy a sonar already in use by several navies around the globe.

Raytheon’s AN/SQS-62 Variable Depth Sonar, also called the Dual-mode Array Transmitter, was a key component of the LCS anti-submarine warfare mission package and was going to be carried into the Constellation-class frigate program to create commonality within the surface force.


But the sonar, though it had succeeded in tracking a submarine in test events, still had two remaining technical challenges: the hydrodynamic stability of the system that trails behind the ship, and the performance and reliability of the transducers.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2022/03/31/us-navy-to-terminate-dart-sonar-development-with-raytheon/

[rebewranger]

Good idea!  Make the Navy operate with antiquated technology!!  Only Joe Biden could  be so "insightful."

[DefiantMassRINO]

They don't have patience for the innovation necessary to resolve the last remaining bugs?

What company sells the system they are buying?  Military procurement process is freckled with conflicts of interest among current and former DoD and miltary employees.

Using antiquated technology is proving suscessful for Russia in Ukraine ... Not!