ThayerMahan unveils Ocius Bluebottle Persistent Unmanned Acoustic Surveillance Vessel
Groton, Connecticut-based undersea surveillance specialist ThayerMahan has unveiled a new version of the Ocius Bluebottle – a persistent unmanned undersea surveillance vessel that supports the Undersea Warfare objectives of the trilateral AUKUS Pillar II. The vessel, christened Outpost TM001, delivers scalable wide-area maritime surveillance capability that mitigates a rapidly growing undersea threat, says ThayerMahan. Outpost…
Leidos unveils new UUV for US Navy
Virginia-based Leidos has announced a new Uncrewed Undersea Vessel (UUV), Sea Dart. This is a high-performance, low-cost, flexible and adaptable UUV designed to support the US Navy and commercial customers across a broad range of missions, the company says. “For more than two decades, Leidos has been at the forefront of supporting the U.S. Navy…
British soldiers take down drone swarm in trial of RF weapon
British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted and defeated swarms of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) in the latest trial of a new directed energy weapon developed in the UK. The RapidDestroyer was developed by a Thales UK-led consortium and uses Radio Frequency (RF) waves at a high frequency to disrupt or damage critical electronic components inside…
US DIU issues UUV solicitation
At almost the same time that it issued the AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge, which focusses on undersea communications, the US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has issued a formal solicitation to industry for what it terms a CAMP, or Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform. To maximize operational effectiveness in contested environments, the United States military requires enhanced…
BAE Systems projects 16-fold increase in 155mm shell production
UK company BAE Systems has developed innovative new approaches in the production of energetics and propellants to strengthen artillery supply chain resilience for the UK and its allies. These developments will deliver a sixteen-fold increase in production capacity of 155mm artillery shells when its new explosive filling facility at Glascoed, South Wales, becomes operational in…
Q-CTRL overcomes GPS-denial with quantum sensing
Sydney based Q-CTRL, a global leader in quantum infrastructure software, has announced successful field trials of a new generation of quantum-assured navigation solutions validated to outperform comparable conventional alternatives in challenging real-world settings. This marks the first achievement of commercial quantum advantage for any of the recently posed applications of quantum technology, cementing Q-CTRL’s role as…
