With the submarine threat on the rise, the US Navy looks to autonomous water sensor drones February 17 The Navy is looking to update its fleet of autonomous sensor gliders used to measure water data needed for hunting enemy submarines. (Photo: Navy) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is collecting proposals for a new autonomous glider drone that can collect data such as water temperatures over time as a way to improve how it hunts for enemy submarines. The system will be the next generation of the current Littoral Battlespace Sensing Glider, which generally deploys from one of the Navy’s five oceanographic survey ships. That glider became the center of an international incident in 2016 when China seized the drone, calling it a hazard to navigation.
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Updated: Feb 16, 2021 10:25 AM
Posted By: Ashley Thusius
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Subsea Defense: Navy Deepens Commitment to Underwater Vehicles Senior Chief Mineman Abraham Garcia (left) and Aerographer s Mate 1st Class Joshua Gaskill, members of the Knifefish Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) test team, man tending lines during crane operations as part of an operational test conducted by members from Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR). Knifefish is a medium-class mine countermeasure UUV designed for deployment off the Littoral Combat Ship. OPTEVFOR is the Navy’s sole test and evaluation organization for surface, air, and un Orca extra-large unmanned undersea vehicle will be used in mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare. Credit: Boeing. CURV-21 is a 6,400-pound Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) that is designed to meet the US Navy s deep ocean salvage requirements down to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet of seawater. This vehicle is loaded with a host of new technolog
Teledyne to Provide MK11 SEAL Mini-Subs to U.S. Navy Our Bureau 2325
Next-generation SEAL MK 11 submersible undergoing training and testing in a pool @USSOCOM
The U.S. Navy has asked Teledyne Brown Engineering to build MK11 shallow water combat submersibles (SWCS) for them.
A contract valued $39.2 million for the same was announced by the U.S. Department of Defense today.
Work is expected to be completed by September 2024.
The SWCS System is a manned combat submersible vehicle specifically designed to insert and extract Special Operations Forces (SOF) in high threat areas. It is a type of swimmer delivery vehicle (SDV). SWCS, designated as Mark 11 SDV, will replace the current Mark 8 SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV).