Mine Improvements

Abstract

Naval mines are used to deter or control adversary movements, including surface ships and submarines. Funding supports the capability to maintain effectiveness of mines facing new threat targets with increasing emphasis on major regional conflicts and great power competition. The four major project areas are: 1)Aerial delivery improvements support capabilities required by a JEONS. This includes adding GPS-guided, powered and glide flight gear to the Quickstrike series to reduce risk to delivery aircraft by introducing precision placement and standoff range. This effort will include the development and execution of the QuickstrikeER and Quickstrike-P capabilities. 2)Clandestine Delivered Mine (CDM) provides a capability required by Joint Emergent Operational Needs Statement (JEONS) by converting legacy mining systems for delivery by Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUV) (Increment 1). This capability allows access to contested environments and reduces risk by using unmanned platforms. Pre-planned product improvements to CDM incorporates the programmable TDD Mk 71,adds remote control arming (Increment 2) and reversible arming functions through future upgrades for increased operational flexibility and safety for emplaced minefields. 3)Quickstrike Mod 3 improves effectiveness of existing mines against modern threats by using a programmable target detection device (TDD) Mk 71. Quickstrike Mod 3 utilizes modeling and analysis to improve target detection and response by developing optimized mine settings and firing algorithms. 4)Minefield planning improvements include new targeting algorithms, mine settings, and corresponding damage data for weapon/target pairs into existing minefield planning software. Also included are upgrades to the software tool to optimize minefield planning to account for new precision placement capabilities inherent to the CDM and GPS-guided Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) equipped Quickstrike mines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0267_0604601N_5_1319_PB_2022

Tags

Readers

  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers

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