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Navy and Marine Corps through universities, government laboratories, and other research Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. html OCEANOGRAPHY AND MINE WARFARE FIGURE 3-6 37 Organizational chart of the Office of Naval Research (ONR). organizations. In addition, ONR provides technical advice to the operational branches of the Navy through the Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of the Navy (ONR, 1999). The science and technology arm of ONR maintains close links with the oceanographic research and technical development communities by supporting proposals that will benefit naval operations (ONR, 1999).
The MMS force is the only asset in the fleet that can detect buried mines. EOD and MMS systems can together accomplish a range of tasks from mine search through identification. In the future EOD and MMS teams will be replaced by Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV), which are not limited by endurance, particularly in cold or otherwise hostile environments. UUVs also have the advantage of removing the warfighter from the battlefield. Organic Mine Countermeasures An important component of a successful MCM program is the capability of carrier battle groups, amphibious ready groups, and other naval assets to deal with naval mines while dedicated MCM forces are in transit or otherwise occupied.
NAVOCEANO maintains high-resolution geologic, bathymetric, and oceanographic databases in support of fleet mine warfare efforts, yet the full range and resolution of these data are not typically exploited. For example, sonar width “A” is highly dependent on potentially variable seawater physical properties. Despite this, sonar width is a fixed quantity in NWP 3-15 for all environments. Consequently, environmental variations can result in data voids, termed “holidays,” because the assumed sonar detection width “A” is greater than the actual sonar detection width.
Oceanography and Mine Warfare 2000 by NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C.
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