Cincinnati Electronics News

Cincinnati Electronics Wins Navy Contract

L-3 Communications said its Cincinnati Electronics (L-3 CE) subsidiary will provide the U.S. Navy's Sea Fighter FSF-1 (Sea Fighter) with its Night Conqueror thermal imager. The Night Conqueror will be used in the Vistar 350 sensor suite operating as a navigational electro-optical (EO) system on the Sea Fighter, which can operate at speeds greater than 50 knots and has a range of approximately 4,000 nm. The Vistar 350 is a day/night surveillance system that allows enhanced visibility from a wide range of craft, either sea going or for inland waters. According to the Office of Naval Research, which developed SeaFighter with L-3 Titan as the ship's prime contractor, this high-speed aluminum catamaran will test a variety of technologies that will allow the U.S.