
A Navy team in October demonstrated a new launch and recovery concept for large unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) using an HII platform, the service said on Monday. The demonstration entailed land-based launch and recovery approach and a new solution to launch large UUVs from Navy amphibious ships at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport Narragansett Bay Test Facility. The testing used a Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype and an HII [HII] Pharos large launch and…