REMUS UUV completes first Virginia-class torpedo tube recovery and swimout
A REMUS 620 UUV, like the one pictured here, completed the vehicle's first Virginia-class torpedo tube recovery and swimout. (HII)
A team from HII, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the US Navy (USN) Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWC Division Newport) completed the first recovery of a second-generation REMUS 620 unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) into a Virginia-class submarine torpedo tube and shutterway test fixture at Seneca Lake, New York, HII confirmed on 6 October in a release.
The milestone was achieved less than seven months after integrating WHOI's Yellow Moray torpedo tube launch and recovery (TTL&R) technology into the next-generation REMUS 620, HII noted.
HII called the event “a major step forward in the US Navy Submarine Force's efforts to launch and recover autonomous undersea vehicles from submarine torpedo tubes”.
An in-water test by the team confirmed the ability of REMUS 620 to conduct “complex autonomous navigational and communication protocols in safely docking with the shock and fire enclosure capsule (SAFECAP) loaded into a submerged Virginia-class submarine fixture”, HII said.
The REMUS 620 also demonstrated reverse swimout launch and safe separation during this test period, HII said.
For more information on REMUS 620 development, please see DSEI 2025: SAMDIS 600 synthetic aperture sonar completes integration with REMUS 620 UUV .
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