BAE SYSTEMS To Deliver First Order Of 57mm Target Practice Ammunition to U.S. Navy.MINNEAPOLIS -- BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. has received a $1.2 million contract award from the U.S. Navy that calls for 1,000 rounds of the company's 57mm Target Practice (TP) Ammunition, Mk 296 Mod 0. The Mk 296 Mod 0 practice rounds will be used by both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard. The TP ammunition, which has improved Insensitive Munitions Insensitive munitions are munitions which reliably fulfil their performance, readiness and operational requirements on demand, but which minimise the probability of inadvertent initiation and severity of subsequent collateral damage to weapons platforms, logistic systems and (IM) characteristics, was developed to train sailors on the 57mm Mk 110 Naval Gun system. The naval gun and its ammunition have been selected to go aboard the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship The Littoral Combat Ship is the first of the U.S. Navy's next-generation surface combatants. Intended as a relatively small surface vessel for operations in the littoral region (close to shore), the LCS is smaller than the Navy's guided missile frigates, and have been compared to (LCS LCS - Language for Communicating Systems ), and on the U.S. Coast Guard's National Security Cutter The United States Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC) is one design among several new cutter designs developed as part of the Integrated Deepwater System Program.[1] . It's also the close-in gun system for the Navy's new destroyer, the DD 1000, formerly called the DD(X). "For the Mk 110 Naval Gun system program, both the gun system and the ammunition are being delivered by BAE Systems," said Keith Howe, BAE Systems' vice president and general manager for Armament Systems. "Together, this gun system and its ammunition provide the Navy and the Coast Guard with the most advanced technology armament warfare." BAE Systems was awarded the contract by NSWC-Crane. |
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