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Monday, April 09, 2007

U.S. Navy receives RMV minehunter vehicle

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usLockheed Martin Friday turned over the first production model of the Remote Minehunting Vehicle (RMV) to the U.S. Navy for deployment.

The RMV is earmarked for the destroyer USS Bainbridge and will eventually become a mine-countermeasures fixture aboard Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and the Littoral Combat Ship.

The RMV is part of the RMS (Remote Minehunting System) that is designed to detect and dispose of submerged mines laid along the coastal "littoral" waters where the Navy expects to conduct a significant share of its operations in the 21st Century.

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