Teledyne Brown to build undersea glider UUVs that gather data for hunting submarines

摘要

U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts needed unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) that gather data to help Navy surface ships, submarines, and aircraft find and attack enemy submarines. Officials of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command in San Diego announced a $27.4 million five-year contract in late June to Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. To build and upgrade UUVs for the Navy's Littoral Battlespace Sensing-Glider (LBS-G) program. The Navy operates about 180 LBS-G systems, which are manufactured by Teledyne Brown for search, detection, navigation, and guidance. The UUVs can operate for as long as 90 days, dive as deep as 657 feet. These undersea gliders use minute amounts of electric power by adjusting their buoyancy to glide from the surface to their maximum depths to cover large ocean distances in much the same way that an aircraft glider moves from high altitudes to their landing spots on the ground while covering as much distance as possible.