HII Tests New UUV With US Navy

An HII firm has been putting REMUS 620, its newest uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV), through its paces with the US Navy.

As per a recent press statement, Uncrewed Systems, a business unit of HII’s Mission Technologies, recently took part in the U.S. Navy UUV Confidence Course staged in Bangor, Washington.

The next-generation medium-sized UUV is designed to be used for a range of missions including mine countermeasures (MCM), intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and electronic warfare (EW).

The modular design means it can be between 3.1 and 5.6 metres long; it has twin wet-or-dry payload bays, a battery life of up to 110 hours, and a payload-dependent range of up to 275 nautical miles.

It can be deployed from submarines, small manned or unmanned boats, amphibious and surface ships, and helicopters.

The UUV can be autonomous or remote-controlled via HII’s Odyssey mission-management software.

Adrian Gonsalves, REMUS 620 product manager, commented: “Getting a chance to put our newest design through its paces on the Navy’s UUV confidence course was a great opportunity for us to validate our design improvements to the vehicle.”

He added: “The confidence course provided us a great benchmark we can use to continue our improvements to this great design and gave us a chance to show UUV sailors in Keyport how much improvement we built into this next gen MUUV in terms of modularity and maintainability.”

• You can read more details on the HII website