Boeing Achieves First Submerged Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Recovery by a Submarine
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26, 2007 -- Boeing's AN/BLQ-11 has demonstrated the first ever 21" Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) autonomous launch and recovery operation from a submarine. Here, the vehicle and all its ship-board equipment is loaded into its host submarine the same way torpedoes are loaded. AN/BLQ-11 is designed to be launched from the submarine's torpedo tube to survey and detect objects, and gather underwater data.
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Photo Credit: U.S. Navy
Neg #: SAF07-00200-001
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