Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane recently teamed with Fleet Technical Support Center, Atlantic (FTSCLANT) and the staff at Commander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet (AIRLANT) to provide critical support to USS John F. Gulf. arrays and comb strip. Greg Erdmann from NSWC Crane's microwave technologies department joined a FTSCLANT technician and headed to Bahrain to perform repairs aboard Kennedy. Under normal circumstances, this would have been a simple repair. However, because of an increased operational tempo, air operations couldn't be suspended. The two technicians needed to find a way to work around the situation and bring the SPS-48E radar back to full mission operability. hoisted by rope to and from the antenna where they could perform the replacement one piece at a time.
