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VT Delivers LCVPs,

Minehunter

Pictured is HMS Pembroke.

The U.K. Minister of Defense recently received four new land- ing craft vehicle personnel ships (LCVPs) from Vosper

Thornycroft Ltd. (VT), vessels destined for the Royal Marines .

The new LCVPs will be carried aboard the landing platform helicopter (LPH) vessel HMS

Ocean.

The Mark 5 series of LCPV is all aluminum and nearly 50 ft. (15 m) long with the capacity for 35 personnel and nearly two tons of equipment.

These vessels are all powered by Volvo Penta diesels driving

Vospower 170 water jets to pro- duce speeds in excess of 15 knots fully loaded.

VT has also delivered the Royal

Navy's latest minehunter, HMS

Pembroke, from its Southampton shipyard. Pembroke is the sev- enth minehunter in a batch of 12

Sandown class vessels being built by VT.

The major innovation in the technology involving the build- ing of this vessel is its Seeman

Composite Resin Infusion

Molding Process (SCRIMP).

SCRIMP allows for the compos- ite to be vacuum-sealed by a machine, whereas the older mod- els and composites had to be applied by hand.

VT is using the SCRIMP method for all of the superstruc- tures and some of the internal structures of the new mine- hunters. The resin allows the vessel to remain non-magnetic and to also resist high shock loads.

The Sandown class mine- hunters are 175 ft. (52.5 m) long and displace about 470 tons with an accommodation of 40 crew- men.

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BBN Sonar Completes

Sea Trials

BBN Technologies has announced the successful sea trials of four of its Distant Thunder sonar systems for U.S. Navy patrol ships. This advanced anti-subma- rine warfare system (ASW) was developed in partnership with the

Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency (DARPA) over the last 6 years. Distant Thunder is a low frequency, multi-static active sonar system designed to provide an organic rapid area search and localization capability for U.S.

Navy ships against quiet diesel/electric submarines operat- ing in accoustically adverse waters, such as those found along coastal regions. This system will be blended by means of commer- cially-off-the-shelf hardware with helicopter, surface and command and control systems support to more accurately locate anomaly- like sounding submarines.

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