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FIGURE 21.4
Archerfish operational scenario.
21.1 Explosive ordnance disposal and mine countermeasures 567
(Courtesy BAE Systems.)
Table 21.1 Expendable MCM Vehicle Specifications
Archerfish K-STER Minesniper Seafox
Length (m) Width (m) Height (m) Weight (kg) Depth (m) Range (m) Sonar
TV Navigation
1.05 0.135 0.135
15
300 Unknown Yes
Yes Trackpoint II
1.45
0.23
0.23
50
300 Unknown Dual freq. B&W, color Yes
1.8 1.3 0.48 0.4 0.17 0.4 39 40 500 300 4000 1 1200 Yes Yes CCD CCTV SBL INS
21.1.3.1.2 K-STER
France’s ECA SA, which has been expanding their line of undersea vehicles, has added the K-STER Mine Killer (Figure 21.7). The vehicle is an expendable mine disposal system (EMDS) that comes in both a positively buoyant, inert training variant (K-STER I) and the negatively
