US Awards DE Technologies Contract to Develop Warheads

The U.S. Navy awarded DE Technologies of Pennsylvania a contract worth up to almost $7 million to work on small shaped charge warheads. The press release is at Your Industry News. The research will aid in the development of larger warheads for use in the Compact Rapid Attack Weapon system. This is a lightweight torpedo type system that would be launched by a ship or submarine and may also have defensive missions. See this at Navy.mil for more.

US Navy orders torpedoes

October 15, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, FMS, Raytheon, U.S. Navy, production program 

The US Navy contracted with Raytheon to procure ship, submarine and aviation based torpedoes. The $165 M contract is for both Mk 48 and Mk 54 torpedoes. Some of them will be used to fulfill FMS orders as well. The Mk 48 are larger and equip submarines. The Mk 54 light weight torpedo can be dropped by aircraft or fired from surface ships.

See the press release at Forbes.