Huntington Ingalls Industries and Battelle used this week’s Sea-Air-Space exposition to spotlight their ‘Proteus’ dual-mode submersible prototype.
The undersea vehicle development by the two companies helped to support the US Navy’s exploration of moving unmanned technology into larger platforms, according to David Ferris, a project ocean engineer at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding Undersea Solutions Group.
Similar in external design to the MK8 Mod1 ‘Eight Boats’ currently deployed with US Navy Special Operations Forces, Proteus is a ‘wet sub’ design that requires operators and occupants to wear breathing apparatus while travelling in a flooded environment.
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Cummings Aerospace presented its turbojet-powered Hellhound loitering munition at SOF Week 2025, offering a man-portable solution aligned with the US Army’s LASSO requirements.
PDW has revealed its Attritable Multirotor First Person View drone at SOF Week 2025, offering special operations forces a low-cost, rapidly deployable platform for strike and ISR missions, inspired by battlefield lessons from Ukraine.
Teledyne FLIR is highlighting the emerging requirements for 'recoverable and re-usable' loitering munitions across the contemporary operating environment during this week’s SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida.
High-performance maritime industry player Kraken Technology Group, based in the UK, has used the SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida this week to debut its K3 Scout uncrewed surface vessel (USV) to the North American market.
Red Cat and Palladyne AI recently conducted a cross-platform collaborative flight involving three diverse heterogeneous drones.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has driven another stage of evolution for drones and the counter measures to defend against them.
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