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Ultra Maritime and General Atomics Partner For Anti-Sub Offerings

Ultra Maritime and General Atomics Partner For Anti-Sub Offerings
An MQ-9 SeaGuardian unmanned maritime surveillance aircraft system flies over Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS-4) during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem (UxS IBP) 21 on April 21, 2021. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe)

General Atomics’ Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) and Ultra Maritime on Tuesday announced a new partnership to aid anti-submarine warfare (ASW) tracking by combining an unmanned aerial system with low-power sonobuoys and receivers. They specifically envision combining GA’s MQ-9B Sea Guardian UAS’ intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) capabilities with Ultra Maritime's half-size exclusive small form factor sonobuoys to double the aircraft’s capacity and work around GPS-denied environments. “These sonobuoys will provide Multi-static Active (MSA) capabilities achieving unprecedented wide-area search. Furthermore,…

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