C2 Robotics’ Speartooth Large Uncrewed Underwater Vessel (LUUV) has passed its latest round of demonstration and evaluation goals during the Royal Australian Navy’s Exercise Autonomous Warrior 23.
During the recent two weeks of in-water experimentation and demonstrations, which concluded on 3 November, the Generation 2 Speartooth proved its capability maturity status.
Successes included demonstrating the logistics systems for transporting and launching Speartooth as well as proving the vessel’s ability to deliver multiple, meaningful effects autonomously and with high accuracy.
"Speartooth is impactful in the range of systems that can be deployed in its large, multi-purpose payload bay as well as the unprecedented scale at which the system can be manufactured and deployed. Those payloads can then be projected very long distances with our highly stealthy delivery vehicle,” said Dr Marcus Hellyer, C2 Robotics Director of Strategy.
“The Generation 2 Speartooth test results have exceeded expectations for range and autonomous performance. This means Speartooth can reach operationally relevant areas far from our shores without being tied to a mothership, opening up new operating concepts.”
Being easily and rapidly deployable in its containerised transportation and storage system is the first stage of projection to forward operating locations where it can be easily launched and recovered.
C2 Robotics is now moving on to the next round of in-water activities experimenting and demonstrating capabilities supported by other sponsors within the ADF.