by Hezi Sternlicht and Israel Hayom Staff
Elbit Systems' Seagull unmanned vessel is designed to carry out an array of maritime missions, including securing sensitive sea areas and protecting ships against threats posed by submarines and mines.
A Seagull vessel launches a torpedo
|
Photo credit: Elbit Systems  |
Israel's Elbit Systems announced on Tuesday a recent successful test torpedo launch by its Seagull unmanned sea vehicle.
The test, conducted in the Mediterranean Sea
near Haifa, confirmed the Seagull's ability to fire lightweight
anti-submarine torpedoes.
The Seagull, a 12-meter-long unmanned surface
vehicle, is designed to carry out an array of maritime missions,
including securing sensitive sea areas and protecting ships against
threats posed by submarines and mines.
Ofer Ben-Dov, vice president Naval Systems Business Line
at Elbit Systems' ISTAR Division, said, "The success of this test
demonstrates Seagull's modular mission system capability, enabling a
highly effective anti-submarine warfare configuration of high
performance dipping sonar using two single tube torpedoes. The test
highlighted Seagull's unique capacity to detect and engage submarines,
in addition to its ability to detect and destroy sea mines -- all using
the same multimission USV system in modular configurations. This new and
important capability has, to date, only been available to navies
through manned vehicles."
Hezi Sternlicht and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34651
Follow Middle East and Terrorism on Twitter
Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.
No comments:
Post a Comment