L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corp., Millersville, Maryland, is being awarded a $20,791,860 cost-plus-incentive-fee undefinitized contract action for the production of six TB-29A Compact Towed Array (CTA) ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy has issued a National Defense Exemption under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to continue testing and operating its Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency ...

Thales Australia has partnered with Saildrone to integrate its BlueSentry thin-line towed array sonar system with the Surveyor unmanned surface vessel. The collaboration aims to create a cutting-edge ...

A close encounter between a Royal Navy warship and a Russian submarine culminated with the sub colliding with the ship’s towed sonar array. The H.M.S. Northumberland was on routine patrol in the ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --L-3 Technologies Ocean Systems Division has received a $49.4 million contract to provide support, testing and repair services for the TB-23 towed array systems. L-3 will salvage, ...

Horseshoe bats’ unique noses and big, flexible ears make them nature’s most dynamic sonar arrays. Engineers built a mechanical version, and they’re testing it on a quadcopter drone. The sonar ...

Canadian Commercial Corporation, Ontario, Canada, is being awarded a $7,801,555 firm fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to refurbish TR-343 ...

Like its Russian counterpart, a Virginia’s main sonar is a spherical, bow-mounted type. However, starting with the Block III series of submarines, the BQQ-10 sonar is replaced with the U-shaped Large ...

Following an extensive refit, HMS Portland has become the final Royal Navy Type 23 frigate to be fitted with Thales U.K.’s Sonar 2087, a towed array sonar system that enables warships to hunt ...

While just about everyone knows that bats locate prey in the dark using echolocation, one thing that many people may not realize is the fact that horseshoe bats are particularly good at it. With this ...

The Navy is asking to be exempted from a federal law that forbids the harassment or killing of whales as it begins exercises with a powerful new sonar designed to hunt for super-quiet submarines. The ...

Israeli company DSIT Solutions has received approval from its government to export the SwordFish towed array sonar system, and is showcasing the product outside the country for the first time. The ...