Sparton Corporation will manufacture sonobuoys for the US Navy under a $28m contract awarded by ERAPSCO, a joint venture between Sparton and Ultra Electronics Holdings.
Under the contract, the company will produce 33,604 sonobuoys, including AN/SSQ-53F, AN/SSQ-62E, and AN/SSQ-36B variants designed to support US Naval anti-submarine forces.
Sonobuoys detect acoustic emissions or reflections from hostile submarines and transmit the signals to the navy airborne anti-submarine warfare forces.
The AN/SSQ-53F sonobuoy is a passive acoustic sensor used for detection, classification, and localisation of adversary submarines, while the AN/SSQ-62E is an active acoustic sensor used in the final localisation and attack phase of submarine prosecutions.
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By GlobalDataThe US Navy will use the AN/SSQ-36B sonobuoy to measure the temperature profile of a water column thereby providing sonar propagation and acoustic range prediction.
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Manufacturing work, which will be carried out at the company’s facility in DeLeon Springs, Florida, is expected to be complete by September 2011.
