美国海军取消远距猎雷载具（声纳保留）

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美国海军官员在周四（3月24日）证实，由洛马集团主承包发展、LCS反水雷套件里关键的远距猎雷载具（Remote Minehunting System，RMS）计画已经终止

RMS在先前的测试中一直无法通过可靠度的验证。落后与超支触发了Nunn-McCurdy法案。至此美国海军只订购了10套RMS，而不是原订的54套。砍掉后续订单可节省7.5亿美元。

另一方面，载具搭载的AN/AQS-20声纳系统被证实相当成功，应该会被保留（AN/AQS-20可由其他载具如MH-60直升机、有人与无人水面载具来部署）

美国海军最终仍会采购其他更多载具。美国海军表示，现有的10具RMS仍会升级，并与其他已经进入服役的无人载具竞争，包括 Textron的通用无人水面载具（Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle ，CUSV)以及通用动力（General Dynamics）的Knifefish无人载具。CUSV已经加入LCS的水雷反制套件。

THE PENTAGON — The Navy has officially canceled the Remote Minehunting System acquisition program, but the AN/AQS-20A advanced minehunting sonar within the RMS program may live on in another capacity, a senior defense official told reporters Thursday.

The Navy originally planned to buy 54 RMSs for its Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures mission package. It has bought 10 so far and will not award a contract to Lockheed Martin for additional vehicles, the service announced Feb. 26. Service officials said then that the Navy would upgrade most of the 10 Remote Multimission Vehicles – the unmanned vehicle at the center of RMS – and ultimately compete it against the Textron Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV), which is already slated to join the LCS mine countermeasures package as a minesweeping vehicle, and the General Dynamics Knifefish unmanned underwater vehicle, which will join the mission package for buried and high-clutter minehunting.

On Thursday the senior defense official said that future Navy budget requests would contain funding lines for an unmanned vehicle to tow minehunting sonar, since the requirement for an unmanned vehicle to search for mines still exists, but decisions haven’t been made yet about what that future vehicle might be. Though the AQS-20A sonar has performed well in testing, the Navy has not formally decided if the future unmanned vehicle will tow the Q-20 or another sensor.

Still, the official said it was likely that the sonar could live on. The Navy and Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall are in discussions about whether the sonar would become its own program within the mine countermeasures mission package, be folded in with another existing acquisition program, or something else. There are no immediate plans to buy more sonars, the official said, giving the Navy and Defense Department time to figure out the best path forward.

The official said canceling the RMS program after just 10 vehicles saved the Navy about $750 million, though the Navy will still have to buy more vehicles eventually. The cancelation technically triggered a Nunn-McCurdy breach, since curtailing the program led the per-unit cost to spike – initial development costs were spread over 10 instead of 54 vehicles – though the official said the breach is in name only

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美国海军官员在周四（3月24日）证实，由洛马集团主承包发展、LCS反水雷套件里关键的远距猎雷载具（Remote Minehunting System，RMS）计画已经终止

RMS在先前的测试中一直无法通过可靠度的验证。落后与超支触发了Nunn-McCurdy法案。至此美国海军只订购了10套RMS，而不是原订的54套。砍掉后续订单可节省7.5亿美元。

另一方面，载具搭载的AN/AQS-20声纳系统被证实相当成功，应该会被保留（AN/AQS-20可由其他载具如MH-60直升机、有人与无人水面载具来部署）

美国海军最终仍会采购其他更多载具。美国海军表示，现有的10具RMS仍会升级，并与其他已经进入服役的无人载具竞争，包括 Textron的通用无人水面载具（Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle ，CUSV)以及通用动力（General Dynamics）的Knifefish无人载具。CUSV已经加入LCS的水雷反制套件。

THE PENTAGON — The Navy has officially canceled the Remote Minehunting System acquisition program, but the AN/AQS-20A advanced minehunting sonar within the RMS program may live on in another capacity, a senior defense official told reporters Thursday.

The Navy originally planned to buy 54 RMSs for its Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures mission package. It has bought 10 so far and will not award a contract to Lockheed Martin for additional vehicles, the service announced Feb. 26. Service officials said then that the Navy would upgrade most of the 10 Remote Multimission Vehicles – the unmanned vehicle at the center of RMS – and ultimately compete it against the Textron Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV), which is already slated to join the LCS mine countermeasures package as a minesweeping vehicle, and the General Dynamics Knifefish unmanned underwater vehicle, which will join the mission package for buried and high-clutter minehunting.

On Thursday the senior defense official said that future Navy budget requests would contain funding lines for an unmanned vehicle to tow minehunting sonar, since the requirement for an unmanned vehicle to search for mines still exists, but decisions haven’t been made yet about what that future vehicle might be. Though the AQS-20A sonar has performed well in testing, the Navy has not formally decided if the future unmanned vehicle will tow the Q-20 or another sensor.

Still, the official said it was likely that the sonar could live on. The Navy and Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall are in discussions about whether the sonar would become its own program within the mine countermeasures mission package, be folded in with another existing acquisition program, or something else. There are no immediate plans to buy more sonars, the official said, giving the Navy and Defense Department time to figure out the best path forward.

The official said canceling the RMS program after just 10 vehicles saved the Navy about $750 million, though the Navy will still have to buy more vehicles eventually. The cancelation technically triggered a Nunn-McCurdy breach, since curtailing the program led the per-unit cost to spike – initial development costs were spread over 10 instead of 54 vehicles – though the official said the breach is in name only