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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Hamilton fixes sub’s faulty O2 generator

Virginia classHamilton Sundstrand, a unit of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp., has repaired the oxygen generator on the USS New Hampshire submarine which had failed during recent exercises in the Arctic, Reuters reports.

"Repairs to the oxygen generator on USS New Hampshire are complete and it has been restored to full service," Navy Commander Dan Caldwell, spokesman for the U.S. fleet of submarines based in the Atlantic, told Reuters.

The generator failure occurred just before Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and other VIPs arrived at an ice camp about 150 miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska last month to observe the New Hampshire, a $2.4 billion submarine commissioned in 2008, and another submarine, the USS Connecticut, in military exercises.

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