Name AN/BLQ-11 Length 6 m (20 ft) | Operators United States Boeing | |
Builders Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Type Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Displacement 1,244 kilograms (2,743 lb)) | ||
The AN/BLQ-11 autonomous Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (formerly the Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS)) is a torpedo tube-launched and tube-recovered underwater search and survey unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) capable of performing autonomous minefield reconnaissance as much as 200 kilometers (120 mi) in advance of a host Los Angeles-, Seawolf-, or Virginia-class submarine.
LMRS is equipped with both forward-looking sonar and side-scan synthetic aperture sonar.
Boeing concluded the detailed design phase of the development project on 31 August 1999. In January 2006, USS Scranton (SSN-756) successfully demonstrated homing and docking of an LMRS UUV system during at-sea testing.[1]
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Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA