New HADALUS UUV demonstrates undersea launch capabilities
Credit RTX Raythen
Raytheon and Composite Energy Technologies (CET) have successfully demonstrated the undersea launch capabilities of HADALUS, a new, low-cost, long-endurance unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV).
During a recent US Navy exercise, the UUV completed a series of at-sea missions on a Navy undersea test range, successfully demonstrating its undersea launch capabilities - to detect, reacquire and engage functions while submerged, a Raytheon statement said.
HADALUS is a 34‑foot UUV with a six‑foot cross section and more than 2,000 nautical miles of endurance.
Its free‑flooded, all‑carbon‑fibre exoskeleton delivers exceptional strength and payload capacity while enabling a significantly lower‑cost architecture.
Designed to cost roughly one‑third to one‑fifth of comparable long‑endurance vehicles, HADALUS offers a scalable path to fielding affordable undersea capabilities.
With investments into the project by both Companies, they progressed from a conceptual sketch to a complete prototype successfully demonstrated in water within a short period of 18 months, it stated.
"This demonstration is an important step in a broader roadmap to deliver autonomous, end‑to‑end undersea capabilities that are far less detectable than surface platforms," said Jen Gauthier, vice president of Naval Systems & Sustainment at Raytheon.
"By tightly coupling design, integration and at‑sea experimentation, we've proven we can bring new autonomous solutions to the fleet quickly and cost‑effectively."
