AN/SQS-89A(V)15 Anti-Submarine Warfare System (ASWS)

The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is an integrated, under surface warfare combat
system that is deployed on Ticonderoga Class cruisers and Arleigh Burke
Class destroyers. It is composed of the sensors, processors, displays,
and weapons controls to detect, classify, localize, and engage threat
submarines and alert on threat torpedoes. Functional segments process
and display active, passive, and environmental data.

It is a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS), open-architecture system that
includes staggered biennial software upgrades (ACBs) and biennial
hardware upgrades.

Acoustic Sensors Include:

* a hull-mounted sonar array
* Multi-Function Towed Array (MFTA) TB-37
* includes a towed acoustic intercept component
* calibrated reference hydrophones
* helicopter, and/or ship-deployed sonobuoys

The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 interfaces with the Aegis Combat System to
seamlessly locate, monitor, engage and prosecute enemy submarines
using MK 46 and MK 54 torpedoes from surface vessel torpedo tubes,
Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rockets, or MH-60R helicopters.

Surface Commanders also employ surface combatants with the
AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 as escorts to high-value units to protect against
threat submarines during transit, and they also use the system
to conduct area clearance and defense, barrier operations, and
anti-submarine warfare (ASW) support during amphibious assault
operations.