The US Navy is relying on a new robot submarine as a "mother ship" for swarms of drones. The Dive-XL system is set to change underwater warfare.
Dive-XL from Anduril.
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The US Navy is introducing a new generation of unmanned submarines with the "Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform" project, or Camp for short. The focus is on the Dive-XL autonomous underwater vehicle from US defense contractor Anduril. This large robotic submarine is designed to deploy smaller underwater drones and torpedoes and thus function like a "mother ship", reports the news portal "New Atlas".
The Navy wants to use this to monitor much larger sea areas and relieve the burden on manned ships. The unmanned systems are intended to serve as additional weapons platforms and increase strike power at sea.
Technical data and capabilities
The Dive-XL is around 11 meters long, around 2 meters wide and fully electrically powered. The submarine should be able to dive to depths of up to 6000 meters. "New Atlas" reports a range of around 2000 nautical miles and a tested underwater dwell time of 100 hours within ten days.
Anduril has not yet announced the maximum speed of the Dive-XL. Typically, systems of this type operate at around 3 to 5 knots. It is estimated that the Dive-XL can briefly reach speeds of 8 to 10 knots (approx. 15 to 18 km/h) in order to quickly change positions or overcome currents.
The Dive-XL is built differently to conventional submarines: it does not have a solid, air-filled pressure hull, but a freely submersible structure. This means that the water simply flows through the housing, preventing the boat from being crushed at depth.
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