Tengo una pregunta para Javier sobre el programa A-RCI:
Leyendo en diferentes sitios (como DID, Globalsecurity y algún site de electrónica militar) se ha comentado diferentes aspectos del programa (básicamente se trata de modernizar con electrónica moderna estandar COTS los equipos de hardware existentes en las diferentes suites de sonar y sistemas de combate y cambiar el soft del CMS2 al C o C++). El programa vería cuatro fases las cuales comprenden:
Mas o menos esta quote cita bien las diferentes fases:
These improvements provide expanded capabilities, particularly in littoral waters, for covert intelligence collection and surveillance and covert insertion and support of Special Forces. Expanded capabilities for anti-submarine warfare focused on diesel-electric submarines, covert mining, and covert strike of targets ashore. Specific software improvements include passive ranging, spatial vernier processing, full spectrum processing, dual towed array concurrent processing, low frequency active interference rejection, passive broadband, passive narrowband and passive detection and tracking processing, track management, on-board training, and port/starboard ambiguity resolution.
The operational test and evaluation plan for A-RCI features four phases followed by periodic testing as evolutionary upgrades are made to the hardware and/or software. A-RCI Phase I added initial improvements to the towed array processing and added the TB-29 towed array.
Phase II was the first implementation of the towed array improvements. When DOT&E placed the program under oversight in 2001, Phase II testing was already underway. The Navy provided insufficient submarine test resources for Phase II resulting in the deployment of Phase II equipped ships without operational testing. The importance of the program and the lack of adequate operational testing led to DOT&E putting this Acquisition Category IV program on oversight. Phase II testing was never completed due to repeatedly cancelled tests and equipment failures. Software reliability and configuration management problems continued to slow the program. In April 2001, Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR) terminated the program testing until the system could be re-certified for testing.
Phase III is a major replacement of the sonar processing hardware and software for the towed, hull, and spherical arrays. The Navy certified Phase III for testing in March 2002.
Phase IV is an upgrade to the high frequency (HF) mine hunting and ice avoidance sonar. The Navy certified Phase IV for testing in August 2002. HF sonar data was collected against the Australian submarine, HMAS Sheean, and in a minefield test in the Berry Islands in August 2002.
Entonces pregunto:
¿Todas las fases han terminado?, ¿Qué se entiende por terminado?, ¿Se habla del R&D y las pruebas o se habla de la instalación de los sets en la flota de unidades 688 y 688I?. Me pregunto si la introducción de las diferentes fases es secuencial en las unidades (si ya todas tienen Fase-I o Fase-I/II/etc o hay mezclas de capacidades)...finalmente si ahora es correcto denominar a la suite de sonar de los 688/688I "AN/BQQ-10" (cual sería el sufjio V?, el del Virginia se que es V4)....
En anuarios como Jane's Fighting Ships 2006-2007 todavía se habla de BQQ-5x (que si D, que si E, etc)...pero parece que esos datos son inexactos y bastante...
¿Hay cambios en la suite de combate?, sé que los 688I con AN/BSY-1(V) usaban el elemento de Comando y Control, CCS MK2 Mod.2 y el Sistema Acústico (AS), y que las unidades anteriores solo usaban el CCS MK2 mod.1 (los Ohio el Mod.3)...¿Cómo es la cosa ahora??
En verdad es muy confuso el programa de upgrades de subs de la USN...help please :(!!!
bu... bueno... no te lo voy a discutir, siempre fuí zote en física. Nunca te acostarás sin saber una cosa más.
