Kongsberg Discovery introduced a Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) award to help within the U.S. Navy’s Giant Displacement Unmanned Underwater Automobile (LDUUV) prototype.
Kongsberg Discovery has been awarded a contract with the Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) to quickly ship HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Automobile (AUV) capabilities for the U.S. Army. The whole contract may consequence within the Navy buying HUGIN Endurance and HUGIN Superior deep-water AUV methods.
HUGIN Endurance, one of many latest members within the HUGIN AUV household, measures 39-ft. lengthy and almost 4-ft. in diameter, with a 15-day endurance, enabling unsupervised shore-to-shore operations over a 1,200 nm vary. HUGIN Superior, the workhorse of Kongsberg’s HUGIN AUV household and the deep-water business normal, is a 22-ft. lengthy, almost 3-ft. in diameter with a 70-hour endurance.
Kongsberg has been supporting the U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) in numerous types since 1892 when the Krag–Jørgensen rifle was first chosen for traditional U.S. Military subject. Since then, Kongsberg has continued to help the U.S. DoD with merchandise resembling: NASAMS (Nationwide Superior Floor-to-Air Missile System), Distant Weapons System (RWS), Naval Strike Missile (NSM), and oceanographic mapping sonars.
