MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) Awarded a contract HAS to International Submarine Engineering (ISE) and Deliver to economic development of two commercial off-the-shelf, high-speed medium in Aurora Towfish of the Royal Canadian Navy ships.
Under the contract, ISE will supply the towfish for the Royal Canadian Navy's maritime coastal defense vessels (MCDV) to Improve mine detection mission and route survey operations.
The Aurora Towfish will be modified by the company to integrate new sensors and navigation equipment, Such as L3 Klein sidescan sonar, multibeam bathymetric and year R2Sonic echosounder.
Designed to operate at speeds of up to 12k, the development of modular Aurora Towfish started in February 1997.
Verified as a viable component of the Royal Canadian Navy's road survey system, the Aurora Towfish with the Dorado semi-submersible technical demonstrator has-been used since 1999 to conduite several sea operations and evaluations.
"The Aurora Towfish will be modified by the company to integrate new sensors and navigation equipment."
Integrated with the HMCS Whitehorse road survey system payload, Aurora Demonstrated capabilities icts during an assessment in Esquimalt January 2008.
In addition, the device capacity to deploy Validated icts various sonar survey modules in operational terms falling on trials in Saanich Inlet and Approaches to Esquimalt Harbour.
Configurable with additional modular wet and dry sections of varying sizes hull, the 3.3m-long features Actively controlled towfish main wing and horizontal position controller to Maintain and depth, as well as Avoiding obstacles.
The Canadian Navy's capabilities to perform MCDV Provides maritime coastal monitoring tasks with specific packages for route survey, ocean bottom inspection and mine counter-measures.
Powered by four diesel electric engines with two direct current electric motors, the 970T and 55.31m long-ships Have a beam of 11.30m, can cruise at a speed of 15k and Accommodate a crew of 31.
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