• Corpus ID: 110433709

Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) deployment and retrieval considerations for submarines

@inproceedings{Hardy2008UnmannedUV,
  title={Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) deployment and retrieval considerations for submarines},
  author={Tim Hardy},
  year={2008}
}

• T. Hardy
• Published 2008
• Computer Science

develop tailored platform solutions to enable integrated and effective methods of UUV deployment and recovery on vessels of all types. The maturity of such systems varies, ranging from reasonably mature surface vessel UUV deployment and recovery systems to less mature submarine systems. The operational benefits of submarine-based UUV operation could be enormous yet the integration challenges are significant, particularly for smaller conventionally-powered submarines. The paper will briefly introduce some self-funded research that BMT Defence Services continues to undertake in this area, focusing on the submarine platform as a base for deploying and recovering UUVs. The paper will report on issues relating to whether the UUV deployment/recovery system should be maintained dry or wet, manned or unmanned, pressurised or not, integral to the submarine or not, optimised for automation and the consequential effect on system complexity. The overall feasibility of fitting such systems into a range of submarine types in various states of platform maturity (i.e. concept and new build submarines to retro-fitting into in-service platforms) will also be considered. The paper will also describe some potential UUV deployment/recovery concepts for further development. The paper seeks to reveal some of the key design and technical areas which need to be addressed by both submarine and UUV designers to enable such systems to be employed in the near and far term.