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BlackSea Unveils its Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel Bid For U.S. Navy

BlackSea Unveils its Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel Bid For U.S. Navy
Artist concept of tBlackSea Technologies' bid for the Navy’s Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC) Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) program, a vessel it said is a modification based on the in-production Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft (GARC) being produced for the Navy. (Image: BlackSea Technologies)

BlackSea Technologies on Monday unveiled its bid for the latest incarnation of the Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV), the Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC), based around its GARC Replicator vessel. The company said the USV it submitted under the MASC solicitation is a 66-foot-long aluminum catamaran that is purpose-built to exceed the Navy’s listed requirements for a vessel to host several reconfigurable payload containers while calling it a production-ready platform. In July, the Navy opened its solicitation for the…

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