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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Sechan to improve target-detection and fire-control for Navy's underwater mines

MK-65 Quickstrike mineU.S. Navy littoral and mine warfare experts needed smart weapons control for air-dropped anti-ship and anti-submarine mines. They found their solution from Sechan Electronics Inc. in Lititz, Pa.

Officials of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division in Panama City, Fla., announced a $17.2 million contract to Sechan Monday to develop and build the Target Detecting Device (TDD) MK 71 Mod 1 to support the Quickstrike Mine Improvement program.

The TDD contains a multi-sensor suite with digital circuitry that uses a Navy-supplied target-detection algorithm to determine a firing solution for the Navy's Mk 65 purpose-built underwater mine, as well as for the Mk 63 and Mk 62 general-purpose bombs that converted to function as bottom mines.

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