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Navy Experiments Put MUSVs On Firmer Setting

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Navy Experiments Put MUSVs On Firmer Setting
The Mariner Ghost Fleet overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel moored at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. on Aug. 22, 2022. The vessel is expected to join its sister ships in San Diego, Calif. In fiscal year 2023. (Photo: Richard Abott, Defense Daily)

Experiments with Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (MUSVs) have helped push the Navy to more securely see the value in the vessels as “advantageous” going forward, a service officer said last week While the Navy has been confident in using Large USVs as an “adjunct magazine capacity,” Rear Adm. Fred Pyle, director of the surface warfare division at OPNAV N96, confirmed the MUSVs will be used more for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting purposes. “We're committed to that effort and the…

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