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GD: Increasing Unmanned Sub Autonomy Will Change Mission Profiles

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GD: Increasing Unmanned Sub Autonomy Will Change Mission Profiles
A rendering of the Knifefish medium unmanned underwater vehicle (MUUV) which will be deployed from the littoral combat ship to sweep mines. (Illustration: General Dynamics)

General Dynamics [GD] is looking at how it can gradually add more autonomy to unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), adding capability and eventually changing the mission profiles. General Dynamics produces several UUVs: the Knifefish to detect, classify, and identify buried, bottom, and volume mines for the U.S. Navy; the Bluefin-21 that Knifefish is based on; and the Bluefin-9. The Bluefin-21 is 21 inches in diameter while Bluefin-9 is nine-inches in diameter. While the Knifefish is being developed for mine countermeasures missions,…

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