REMUS underwater drones will help ships break through sea minefields
Leidos unmanned systems engineers are developing four variants of the REMUS medium-sized experimental autonomous underwater vehicles for marine environmental sensing and mine countermeasures.
Leidos is already developing a MUUV that combines an unmanned vehicle and sensors to provide a permanent means of countering surface mines, as well as autonomous oceanographic sensing and data collection on submarines.
MUUV REMUS is planned to be designed as a modular drone with open programming and customization systems to meet the requirements of the next generation of the Navy’s Unmanned and Small Combat Vehicle Program Office (USC PEO). Also, the software architecture of the created marine drones will support the PMS 406 control system and the Razorback UUV military design environment.
The Razorback design environment envisions medium-sized maritime drones that are launched from the dry deck of a submarine rather than from a torpedo launcher. These autonomous mini-submarines will be modular to perform a wide range of maritime missions from mine clearance to maritime reconnaissance.
The initial MUUV systems will be designed for expeditionary mine action, while others will support autonomous oceanographic sensing on submarines and data collection for environmental sensing and mine action
