U.S. Navy demonstrates cross-domain communications capabilities between UUVs and UAVs
NewsSeptember 09, 2016
RHODE ISLAND. The U.S. Navy completed an exercise demonstrating that AeroVironment's submarine-launched Blackwing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can link with a swarm of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) and communicate with the submarine combat control system. The exercise was conducted during the Annual Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX).
During ANTX, AeroVironment's secure digital datalink - called DDLTM - integrated into all Blackwing UAVs, relayed real-time information from the surrogate manned submarine via the Blackwing UAV to and from multiple UUVs.
AeroVironment officials explain a deployed UUV has the ability to collect data while conducting diverse missions ranging from mine-hunting to wide-area oceanographic sensing.
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