US Navy wants to develop and procure three types of large naval unmanned vehicles for Fiscal Year 2021
Naval Technology
Posted On Sunday, 27 December 2020 18:12
Russian Vyborg Shipyard laid the Purga ice class coastguard ship of project 23550 925 001 US Navy’s naval unmanned surface concept. (Picture source NAVSEA)
The U.S. Navy wants to acquire these large naval UVs (Unmanned Vehicles) as part of an effort to shift the Navy to a more distributed fleet architecture. Compared to the current fleet architecture, this more distributed architecture is to include proportionately fewer large surface combatants (i.e., cruisers and destroyers), proportionately more small surface combatants (i.e., frigates and Littoral Combat Ships), and the addition of significant numbers of large UVs.
The U.S. Navy wants to employ accelerated acquisition strategies for procuring these large UVs, so as to get them into service more quickly. The Navy’s desire to employ these accelerated acquisition strategies can be viewed as an expression of the urgency that the Navy attaches to fielding large UVs for meeting future military challenges from countries such as China.
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