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Title: US Navy's minehunting Knifefish UUV swims through new test round
Post by: rangerrebew on March 23, 2017, 09:19:28 pm

US Navy's minehunting Knifefish UUV swims through new test round
Daniel Wasserbly, Washington, DC - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
22 March 2017
The US Navy's minehunting Knifefish UUV is continuing with testing. It is based on the General Dynamics Bluefin Robotics Bluefin-21 deepwater autonomous underwater vehicle Source: General Dynamics Mission Systems

The General Dynamics Mission Systems Knifefish team completed "a comprehensive evaluation" of Knifefish, an autonomous surface mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) the company is developing for the US Navy.

Knifefish, which is designed to detect buried and bottom mines, is planned to eventually deploy as part of the navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mine-countermeasures (MCM) mission package.

http://www.janes.com/article/68908/us-navy-s-minehunting-knifefish-uuv-swims-through-new-test-round

Title: Re: US Navy's minehunting Knifefish UUV swims through new test round
Post by: geronl on March 23, 2017, 10:14:02 pm

Can it detect all those Russian nukes buried under the beaches in a future move to destroy the US beach-side tourist industry??