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Navy, GD Unveil Unmanned Mine Hunter

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

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The Navy and contractor General Dynamics [GD] for the first time unveiled the unmanned undersea mine hunting vehicle designed for deployment on the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) at the Sea Air Space Exposition hosted by the Navy League yesterday. The Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (SMCM UUV), known as "Knifefish" and developed by General Dynamics, is a heavyweight-class vehicle intended to detect and identify mines in high-clutter underwater environments, or to gather data that can be fed to other…

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