Kongsberg Unveils Arctic Hunter Uncrewed Submarine Hunter For Royal Navy’s Hybrid Fleet

Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled a new uncrewed surface vessel (USV) called Arctic Hunter for the Royal Navy’s Type 92 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) requirement.

The company launched the vessel on November 9, just ahead of this week’s Atlantic Future Forum in Oslo, where it would sign Technology Collaboration Agreements with Thales UK and Balaena Maritime.

Type 92 is part of Atlantic Bastion, the Royal Navy’s plan to pair crewed platforms with uncrewed sensors to detect and track hostile submarines. However, the Ministry of Defence said in July that platform numbers and construction schedules had not been fixed, Navy Lookout reported.

Rather than start from scratch, Kongsberg said that it has taken one of its own Arctic commercial vessel designs and adapted it for the High North, where the vessel would work from a forward support base inside the Arctic Circle to add to the existing ASW network. According to Navy Lookout, it measures 56 metres and is built for missions of up to 60 days.

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