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NAVSEA Developing New MCM Unmanned Vessel

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

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NAVSEA Developing New MCM Unmanned Vessel

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)

Annapolis, Md. -- Last week Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) got the Pentagon’s approval to develop a new common mine countermeasures (MCM) unmanned surface vehicle (USV).The Navy is looking to make a common modular vehicle that can accommodate at least three counter-mine payloads: mine hunting; sweeping; and neutralization, a Navy official said here Tuesday at the NDIA Expeditionary Warfare conference.These MCM vehicles would be used with the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), which will feature a MCM module to perform counter-mine…

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