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Navy’s Newest Unmanned Aircraft Will Launch From Submerged Submarines

Monday, May 16th, 2016

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Navy’s Newest Unmanned Aircraft Will Launch From Submerged Submarines

AeroVironment Blackwing unmanned aerial system.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy has set a course for deploying unmanned aerial vehicles on its manned submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV).A small, tube-launched unmanned aircraft system, the Aerovironment [AVAV] Blackwing will deploy from submerged vessels and carry either sophisticated intelligence-gathering sensors or a small warhead.The Navy chose Blackwing as the result of a 2013 cooperative program between the Navy and Special Operations Command to develop an “advanced weapons enhanced by submarine UAS for use against mobile targets” (AWESUM).Blackwing…

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