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Navy/USMC

Lockheed’s Vector Hawk Drone Launched From Unmanned Sub

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

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Lockheed’s Vector Hawk Drone Launched From Unmanned Sub

The Vector Hawk, a canister-launched small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). Image: Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin [LMT[ recently launched its Vector Hawk small unmanned aircraft from an unmanned submarine for the first time, the company said Sept. 28.During the test, which occurred at a Navy-hosted exercise in Newport, R.I., in August, an Ocean Aero Submaran unmanned surface vessel sent instructions to Lockheed Martin’s 10-foot-long Marlin MK2 autonomous underwater vehicle. In response, the Marlin fired the four-pound, canister-launched Vector Hawk into the air from the surface of Narragansett Bay. The Vector Hawk then unfolded its…

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