Last Updated: 11/16/2011*

The Navy’s Program Executive Office, Littoral Combat Ships (PEO LCS), successfully conducted the first complete detect-to-engage sequence for the Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS), demonstrating the system's ability to fire an Archerfish destructor against an inert target.

A critical component of the littoral combat ship’s mine countermeasures mission package, AMNS is designed to explosively neutralize mines located during minehunting operations. Delivered from an MH-60S helicopter, the system deploys up to four expendable neutralization vehicles. The vehicle is controlled from a console on board the helicopter through a fiber optic cable. It performs positive identification of a mine before warhead detonation.

Seaborne mines continue to menace naval and maritime forces worldwide. Mines are used to attack ships approximately 200 times more than any other weapon. Raytheon’s AMNS, the U.S. Navy’s standard for organic airborne mine clearance, has been designed to counter this threat.

Read the Navy’s press release to learn more about this significant program milestone.

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