A team of scientists aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus are conducting a mission to visit the sunk U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Independence which sits at a depth of 800 meters off the coast of San Francisco. The Corps of Exploration on E/V Nautilus and scientists on shore participating via te
British technology company QinetiQ has been contracted by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) of the UK Ministry of Defence to stage a demonstration of unmanned and autonomous systems during the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior event. The demonstration, dubbed Hell Bay 4, will see a va
The Israel-based defense electronics company Elbit Systems announced August 15 it has developed a new autonomous Mini Unmanned Aircraft System (Mini-UAS) specifically designed and built for martime applications. Based on the already operational Skylark I Mini UAS, the new Skylark C transforms and ex
German and U.S. Navy mine warfare experts are preparing to take their technology to the Baltic Sea, including acoustic and magnetic sensors, to operate side by side and see the differences and to learn from one another with the goal of advancing technologies and techniques for the detection, classif
Unmanned Aircraft Systems manufacturer AeroVironment announced the US Navy has recently tested and deployed the company’s RQ-20B Puma small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard a Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. According to the company, some of the exercises included the use of AeroVironmen
Royal Navy mine disposal experts watched their Japanese counterparts work during the large-scale exercise 2JA 2016. Two British observers joined the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force at its major annual test of its minehunting forces in Mutsu Bay at the northern tip of main island of Honshu. Some
The United States Navy staged multifaceted mine countermeasures training with six nations for over four weeks, during exercise Rim of the Pacific 2016, June 30 through August 4. This year’s participants in Southern California included the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, German Armed Forc
Divers from U.S. and Royal Australian Navy, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and German Armed Forces conducted dive operations training aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) while underway as part of the Southern California portion of the Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise
Israeli defense company Elbit Systems recently completed a trial test torpedo launch from its Seagull multi-mission, autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) system in Israel’s Haifa port. The trial demonstrated the capability of Seagull to install and launch light weight torpedoes, adding to the ca
American automaker General Motors has partnered with the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into the next generation of Navy’s unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs. Hydrogen fuel cells convert high-energy hydrogen effic
U.S. Navy littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) is scheduled to depart Naval Base San Diego June 22 on an independent deployment to the Western Pacific. Before the ship begins its actual deployment, it will participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), a unique training opportunity th
The Royal Canadian Navy’s interim remote mine-sweeper Dorado is currently performing sea trials in Belcarra, British Columbia in preparation for a new role in its service. The purpose built semi-submersible autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), built and housed by International Submarine Engineering,
Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ultra Electronics signed a memorandum of agreement to develop new maritime domain awareness (MDA) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities for Northrop Grumman’s family of autonomous systems. Both companies are slated to participate in a series of demonstrations
The U.S. Navy’s newest oceanographic survey vessel, USNS Maury (T-AGS 66), recently completed its maiden voyage from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Port Everglades, Florida. USNS Maury was constructed at VT Halter Marine and delivered to the Navy on February 16, 2016. The Pathfinder-class ship was launc
