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Navy ‘Pleased’ With Tests Of Knifefish Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

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Navy ‘Pleased’ With Tests Of Knifefish Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

A rendering of the Knifefish medium unmanned underwater vehicle (MUUV) which will be deployed from the littoral combat ship to sweep mines. (Illustration: General Dynamics)

The Knifefish unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), a mine-hunter that General Dynamics [GD] is developing for the Navy, had a successful series of contractor tests last month, a service official said Jan. 10.During the tests, Knifefish detected eight mine-representative targets in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, said Capt. Jon Rucker, program manager for unmanned maritime systems in the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program executive office.The testing revealed only “minor kinks,” which are “nothing that we don’t expect to work through to…

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