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Part of U.S. Navy undersea training range complete

Critical Cable Termination Facility for the East Coast Undersea Warfare Training Range completed last month.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz
The Cable Termination Facility portion of the U.S. Navy's East Coast Undersea Warfare Training Range, a portion of which is shown here being placed in 2015, has been completed, the sea service said Tuesday. U.S. Navy photo
The Cable Termination Facility portion of the U.S. Navy's East Coast Undersea Warfare Training Range, a portion of which is shown here being placed in 2015, has been completed, the sea service said Tuesday. U.S. Navy photo

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 25 (UPI) -- The information and electronics backbone of the U.S. Navy's East Coast Undersea Warfare Training range is complete, the sea service said Tuesday.

The Cable Termination Facility will house the electronics and infrastructure needed to link shore assets with the ranges undersea equipment, officials said in a release announcing the completion.

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The undersea warfare training range will provide realistic littoral training simulations for ships, boats and aircraft.

The CTF's construction, which was completed last month, involved a 6-inch pipe being placed 100 feet underground, running 4,000 feet seaward to carry cables that will process data during training.

Full operations at the range are expected to commence by 2023.

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