US Navy Naval Undersea Warfare Center MANTA UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle) concept

Notional MANTA concept, developed by the US Navy Naval Undersea Warfare Center, several very large, flatfish-shaped UUVs mated externally to a mother submarine could provide a powerful and flexible adjunct to the combat power of their host in offboard operations. As shown in the cutaway view of one variant (right), each MANTA vehicle would carry significant payloads of both sensors and heavyweight weapons.

Futuristic concepts, such as Naval Undersea Warfare Centers MANTA vehicle, would approach, or even exceed, the dimensions of todays Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) 65 feet long and 55 tons. Vehicles of that dimension could carry a variety of full-scale weapons conceptually, MANTA could launch heavyweight torpedoes and depending on future rules of engagement might even be unleashed to wield lethal force against enemy ships, submarines, and shore installations.

If actually developed, MANTA would introduce revolutionary new concepts of submarine operations and require corresponding changes in submarine design. Envisioned as large, somewhat ray-shaped vehicles as much as 50 feet long, four MANTAs might be carried externally on future submarines by integrating them conformally into launch-and-recovery sites just behind the bow. With the ability to replenish their energy sources onboard and to change out the MANTAs modular mission packages as needed, the host submarine would gain extraordinary combat power, reach, and flexibility. Moreover, the MANTA payloads of torpedoes and other weapons would be available to the host as additional onboard resources as long as the UUVs remained attached. NUWC has already tested at sea a one-third scale MANTA prototype capable of carrying multiple Mk 48 torpedoes, and they have also demonstrated its ability to launch smaller UUVs while underway. MANTA remains an ambitious concept in the early stages of research and development, and implementing a MANTA-like vision for future submarine warfare would require at least a concerted, decade-long effort.

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[korn4422]

be sure to install a self destruct sequence on this thing this time....hope you bitches learned your lesson after fucking it all up by giving iran a drone

[dfb999999999]

HAHA lasers...

[XobbKilleR]

В у нас в россии как путин с медведевым курнет и не такое по телеку увидишь))

[frontmissionmarcus]

danger weapon for enermy!

[ericssson]

@SDK2584 ---___---

[SpotterOz]

Cool idea decades from practical deployment

[kdc43]

@SDK2584 Precisely my point, the spies know the West's secrets. Russia can use them against the UK, Israel, USA, Nato, Etc.

[SDK2584]

@kdc43 Because it is a Russian TV show, kinda makes sense... :P

[kdc43]

Why is the narrator speaking RUSSIAN??????

[JpoidMikeru]

when you say for years, would there be any slight crazed connection to USS Liberty in 1967?