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Navy Christens First Snakehead Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022

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Navy Christens First Snakehead Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

Slide 2 of briefing by Captain Pete Small, Program Manager, Unmanned Maritime Systems (PMS 406), “Unmanned Maritime Systems Update,” January 15, 2019 (Image: U.S. Navy)

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…

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