China’s naval expansion continues to surprise onlookers. Less visible, until now, have been developments in underwater drones. That is about to change with an upcoming
Indonesia’s state-owned shipbuilder, PT PAL Indonesia, presented the model of an unmanned autonomous submarine that it is currently developing for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL)
The Royal Navy has unveiled its first uncrewed submarine Excalibur, paving the way for how the UK could operate in the underwater battlespace. Royal Navy
China continues to innovate in the underwater arena. A fresh image reveals one of its latest creations, an extra-large underwater drone (XLUUV). The drone is
India’s DRDO has been testing a prototype of its High Endurance Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HEAUV) for over a year. The maiden surface run of HEAUV
A subsea technology demonstrator designed to blaze the trail for future UK Royal Navy (RN) extra large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XLUUV) has entered the water
U.S. Navy CNO toured Boeing’s Orca XLUUV manufacturing facility and gave remarks about the importance of having robotic multi-mission submersibles in the fleet, Dec 6.
Dive-XLs are at-sea nearly every single day in Australia and the United States, and the vehicle recently concluded a 100 hour single voyage — the longest underway for a vehicle of this class.
BAE Systems’ Herne XLAUV has completed a first set of in-water trials and demonstrations a little over a year after commencing development.
The German Navy has announced that it has conducted a two-week intensive test-phase trial with the BlueWhale autonomous underwater vehicle as part of its Operational Experimentation (OPEX).
