L-3 Wins $20Mln US Contract to Supply Warship Gun Sensors

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The USS Mount Whitney, the flagship of the US Sixth Fleet, has reached the port of Tallinn, Estonia, to take part in the NATO international military exercise, Baltops (Baltic Operations). - Sputnik International
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L-3 Communications has won a $20.1 million contract to provide spare sensors and engineering support for MK 34 Gun Weapon Systems on the US military’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters, the Department of Defense said in a press release on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The company, doing business as L-3 KEO, was awarded the $20,138,900 contract "for MK 20 Electro-Optical Sensor Systems, radar cross-section kits, engineering support services, and depot spares," the release said.

The sensors are a "major component" of the MK 34 systems used by all three of the vessels cited by the Defense Department. Among other applications, the spares will enable check-sighting, identification of counter-battery targets and identification of short-range surface targets, the release stated.

The contract includes purchases by Japan (21 percent of the total) under the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales Program the release noted,

Work will be performed in the US states of Massachusetts and Vermont and is expected to be completed by November 2018.

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