Thursday, 21 July 2016

New Dry Combat Submersible to carry troops to mission areas scuba-free

A Dry Combat Submersible (DCS) prototype in the water in 2012

US Special Forces are in for a drier time as Lockheed Martin and Submergence Group LLC sign a US$166 million contract to supply the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with a new class of combat submersibles. Based on the Lockheed S301i and S302 commercial submersibles, the Dry Combat Submersibles (DCS) replaces the current fleet of Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDV) with a new design that allows the soldiers to travel inside the vessel.

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