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Postcard aerial view of Goat Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare.
In early 2023, following successful military use of uncrewed surface vehicles (USV) by Ukraine in the Black Sea in October and November 2022, [10] the Ukrainian Navy began to employ an uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV), a maritime drone, called the Toloka TLK-150. A small robotic submarine, the TLK-150 is 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long, with twin ...
The AN/BLQ-11 autonomous unmanned undersea vehicle (formerly the Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS)) is a torpedo tube-launched and tube-recovered underwater search and survey unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) capable of performing autonomous minefield reconnaissance as much as [1] 200 kilometers (120 mi) in advance of a host Los Angeles-, Seawolf-, or Virginia-class [2] submarine.
The Ghost Shark (also as Ghost Shark XL-AUV) is a series large autonomous underwater vehicles that is being jointly developed by Anduril Industries and the Department of Defence for the Royal Australian Navy. Three submarines have been ordered for Royal Australian Navy and one (Ghost Shark XL-AUV) for United States Navy. The first of the ...
The Knifefish is an autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) under development by General Dynamics Mission Systems and Bluefin Robotics for the United States Navy.It is a propeller-driven minesweeping robot designed to replace the Navy's trained dolphins and sea lions after the retirement of the 50-year-old Marine Mammal Program in 2017. [1]
The Navy took delivery of the first Orca in December, 2023. [ 5 ] The basic Orca design shares a 51 feet (16 m) length with Echo Voyager , but the Orca will incorporate a more modular construction, primarily for the capability to be built with an additional payload module of up to 34 feet (10 m) long and a capacity of 8 tonnes (8,000 kg) for a ...
The U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency planned in 2014 to award grants and contracts up to $5.5 million each, for its Fast Lightweight Autonomy Program (FLAP) program, which specifies UAVs capable of traveling 60 feet per second (18 m/s) to include autonomy algorithms for quickly and autonomously navigating ...
Ghost Fleet Overlord is a fleet of test unmanned surface vehicles operated by the U.S. Navy. [1] Ghost Fleet Overlord is being developed by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office. [1] It is a partnership between the Defense Department's Strategic Capabilities Office and the Navy. [2]