littoral cell

• Corvettes can play jaws.

...-in weapon system (see below) with the eleven-cell Rim-116 missile launcher to engage targets autonom... number of US Navy vessels including the Littoral Combat Ship and Zumwalt class destroyer. In terms ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 4, Août 2010

• Up close and personal: the survival of warships in the littoral environment depends on layers of close-in defence systems to defeat both conventional and asymmetric threats.

... can be fired from the standard 11- and 21-cell Ram launchers. Raytheon is adding a third option i...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 6, Décembre 2005

• Practical lessons ... and remedies.

... fixed-wing aircraft using solar power, fuel cells and advanced energy storage systems has been demon... for eventual deployment aboard a Littoral Combat Ship, which it is expected to provide with ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 3, Juin 2009

• Big deals in short.

... Grumman Undisclosed Develop new fuel-cell system for comm/sensor equipment Lockheed Martin N... Integrate mission packages for the Littoral Combat Ship EQT Undisclosed Acquired 100% of Daiml...

• Armada International
• Vol. 30 Num. 1, Février 2006

• Keeping submarines up to scratch.

...The move towards littoral warfare has swayed the balance of submarine forces... and increasing the number of storage cells would give the boat a greater submerged endurance....

• Armada International
• Vol. 28 Num. 4, Août 2004

• Corvette cutting edge gets sharper: the corvette has not just replaced the fast attack craft, which dominated the export market some 20 or 30 years ago, but it continues to evolve into a multi-role platform, which further enhances its value. The weapon systems associated with corvettes are a yardstick for marking the importance of these ships.

... the latter are designed specifically for littoral operations. The weapon has improved seeker and GPS... control radars and is housed in vertical cell clusters which may be inserted in the hull or supe...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 4, Août 2007

• Send an amphib, the future cry.

... with which to project air power from littoral waters, navies of all sorts are seeking multi-role... operations forces, their ballistic missile cells have been converted to multi-cell launchers for th...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 1, Février 2005

• From scepticism to Sine Quan Non.

..., the first powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell. Hydrogen is carried in the form of pellets, which... the US Navy selected the RQ-8B for its Littoral Combat ship (LCS), of which 30 to 50 are planned, ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 3, Juin 2005

• Search, find, report and (maybe) strike! Weary of dependence on assets owned by the US services (and on their willingness to share information), the leading Euro-Nato nations are now taking action to develop and procure independent means of ground surveillance and battlefield management. Rather than aiming for Nato-wide equipment commonality, the watchword now is interoperability.

... groups report to Nato's AGS Support Staff Cell (SSC), and it is possible that at a later stage th..., in fog-shrouded mountain valleys or in littoral environments. The pollution-generated haze created...

• Armada International
• Vol. 26 Num. 3, Juin 2002