The Navy plans to develop an anti-submarine sensor for the P-3C aircraft that will cut down on high-powered sonar blasts, and the service has announced it will begin funding the program this fiscal year, according to a notice issued Dec. 18 by Naval Air Systems Command. The Advanced Extended Echo-Ranging (AEER) airborne system would be used in anti-submarine warfare (ASW) as a large-area, undersea search and detection capability, according to the statement of objectives that accompanied the notice. It would...
