Raytheon Company

Joseph Ricci, Jr

James R Sturges

David A Sharp

Patrick M Brogan

Christopher Blake

Haywood Hartwell

Gregory S Rosche

Michael A Gonzalez

Arthur J Pedro

A method of engaging an automated breakout assembly includes receiving, by a tow socket having a rotatable sleeve multiple mating connectors, a cable into the tow socket through a slot. The cable comprises a tow ball. Each mating connector is electrically coupled to an electrical conductor. The method includes receiving, by the rotatable sleeve, the randomly-aligned tow ball through an entrance. The method includes rotating a cam configured to rotate the rotatable sleeve to substantially align the mating connectors of the tow socket with connectors of the tow ball such that each electrical conductor electrically coupled to a mating connector couples to a corresponding connector of the tow ball. The method includes transferring a tow loading force between the cable and the tow socket by moving the cable.

Automated cable breakout assembly

A tow body and associated method have an acoustic projector that can be rotated about a vertical plane while the tow body is being towed through the water. In some embodiments, the tow body and method allow the tow body to be coupled to a tow cable while the tow cable is being towed through the water and under tension.

Sonar systems and sonar methods that use a tow body having a towed acoustic projector for which an orientation can be changed while being towed

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Bristol, RI, United States of America

Joseph Ricci, Jr