Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | AN/BLQ-11 |
| Builders: | Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) |
| Operators: |
 United States Boeing |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Unmanned Undersea Vehicle |
| Displacement: | 1,244 kilograms (2,743 lb)) |
| Length: | 6 m (20 ft) |
| Beam: | .53 m (1 ft 9 in) |
| Height: | .53 m (1 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: | Thrusters |
| Endurance: | 60 hours (nominal load) |
| Test depth: | 1,000 m (3,300 ft) |
The AN/BLQ-11 autonomous Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (formerly the Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS)) is a torpedo tube-launched and tube-recovered underwater search and survey unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) capable of performing autonomous minefield reconnaissance as much as 200 kilometers (120 mi) in advance of a host Los Angeles-, Seawolf-, or Virginia-class submarine.
LMRS is equipped with both forward-looking sonar and side-scan synthetic aperture sonar.
Boeing concluded the detailed design phase of the development project on 31 August 1999. In January 2006, USS Scranton (SSN-756) successfully demonstrated homing and docking of an LMRS UUV system during at-sea testing.
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