Elbit trials TRAPS-USV sonar on Seagull USV

摘要

Elbit Systems' Seagull autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has completed integration and initial sea trials with a compact version of the Towed Reelable Active Passive Sonar (TRAPS) variable depth sonar (VDS) system developed by Elbit's Canadian-based subsidiary GeoSpectrum Technologies. In-water testing of the TRAPS-USV system was performed off Haifa, Israel, in March. The company is claiming a world first for the launch and recovery of an active towed array sonar from a small USV under remote control. Developed by Elbit's naval systems business, Seagull is a modular 12 m aluminium-hulled USV capable of operation from either a mother ship or shore station.