
The Navy christened the first Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype on Feb. 2 at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility in Newport, R.I. The event was led by a team from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport and the Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC). Snakehead is an accelerated acquisition program that looks to field a long-endurance multi-mission LDUUV able to be deployed from ports, attack submarines and Littoral Combat Ships. The…