Related ArticleBoeing's AN/BLQ-11 has demonstrated the first ever 21' Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) autonomous launch and recovery operation from a submarine. Here, the vehicle and all its ship-board equipment is loaded into its host submarine the same way torpedoes are loaded. AN/BLQ-11 is designed to be launched from the submarine's torpedo tube to survey and detect objects, and gather underwater data.
Posted: 12/01/2007