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Auch als Überleitung aus dem Thread im Nationale Sicherheitslage-Bereich zu den Nordstream-Anschlägen ganz interessant:

Report on Navy Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles

The Navy wants to develop and procure three types of large unmanned vehicles (UVs) called Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (LUSVs), Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MUSVs), and Extra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs). [...]

XLUUVs are roughly the size of a subway car. The first five XLUUVs were funded in FY2019 and are being built by Boeing. The Navy wants to use XLUUVs to, among other things, covertly deploy the Hammerhead mine, a planned mine that would be tethered to the seabed and armed with an antisubmarine torpedo, broadly similar to the Navy’s Cold War-era CAPTOR (encapsulated torpedo) mine. Under the Navy’s FY2023 five-year (FY2023-FY2027) shipbuilding plan, procurement of additional XLUUVs through the Other Procurement, Navy (OPN) account is scheduled to begin in FY2024.

https://news.usni.org/2022/10/21/report-...ehicles-11

Zum XLUUV (von Ende September, siehe auch meinen Post dazu vom Mai d. J. hier auf der Seite):

US Navy’s ORCA XLUUV 64% Over Budget, 3 Years Late

The U.S. Navy's Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) is 64% over its original cost estimate and at least 3 years late. This is outlined in a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report issued 28 September 2022. [...]

The U.S. Navy is trying to deploy five large, robotic submarines to do the dangerous job of laying undersea mines. But the effort is more than 3 years behind schedule and has exceeded costs by at least $242 million. [...] The Orca XLUUV is an open architecture, reconfigurable Unmanned Undersea Vehicle. The Orca XLUUV will be modular in construction with the core vehicle providing guidance and control, navigation, autonomy, situational awareness, core communications, power distribution, energy and power, propulsion and maneuvering, and mission sensors. [...]

Although no specifications are available, one graphic used by the US Navy to represent an armed future XLUUV is particularly revealing. It shows a craft with generally the same layout as the interim Orca class, with a payload module with bomb-bay like doors along the bottom. The payload bay contains three rows of four heavyweight torpedo tubes angled to fire down through the bomb bay doors. This makes the length of the payload bay about 10 meters, giving an indication of the overall size.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...ears-late/

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