Royal Navy IED divers operated Sea Wasp during Unmanned Warrior
Unmanned Warrior was a multinational exercise, held in Scotland and Wales 10-21 October 2016.
Around 40 companies and organisations were invited by the United Kingdom´s Royal Navy to show off their latest technological developments within maritime autonomous systems in a tactically representative environment. During the exercise, Saab´s anti-submarine acoustic target AUV62-AT and the underwater IED robot Sea Wasp, played some really important roles. The Sea Wasp was allocated with the Royal Navy´s Diving teams in Loch Goil where it will was used for search missions of harbours and counter underwater IED and mine threats.
The first team from Sweden arrived in Stornoway October 6 with a complete AUV62-AT system. They began setting up the system on board the ship they were going to operate from - a torpedo recovery vessel. The system was going to be used for tracking by autonomous sensor systems from Boeing and Hydronaut, and Sonarbuoys from Ultra. AUV62-AT was operational for the entire exercise period conducting its final mission on October 19. The second team was smaller and consisted of two personnel. One from Sweden and one from UK, and they arrived at the BUTEC range on October 9. During the first week of exercise the IED hunter Sea Wasp, was operated out of the BUTEC Range in the Kyles of Lochalsh. The time there was split into two. The first was a variety of operations in the harbour, where they countered IED targets on the jetty above/on the waterline and conducted hull searches of larger vessels and tugs within the harbour. A seabed search was also completed within the harbour and an exercise target was located and recovered – mission accomplished. The second series of operations were focussed on delivering a demonstration for two VIP days, a media day and a day of filming by a BBC film crew. For the purpose of these events the team from Saab put together a demonstration of Sea Wasp within the BUTEC harbour basin.
The first team from Sweden arrived in Stornoway October 6 with a complete AUV62-AT system. They began setting up the system on board the ship they were going to operate from - a torpedo recovery vessel. The system was going to be used for tracking by autonomous sensor systems from Boeing and Hydronaut, and Sonarbuoys from Ultra. AUV62-AT was operational for the entire exercise period conducting its final mission on October 19. The second team was smaller and consisted of two personnel. One from Sweden and one from UK, and they arrived at the BUTEC range on October 9. During the first week of exercise the IED hunter Sea Wasp, was operated out of the BUTEC Range in the Kyles of Lochalsh. The time there was split into two. The first was a variety of operations in the harbour, where they countered IED targets on the jetty above/on the waterline and conducted hull searches of larger vessels and tugs within the harbour. A seabed search was also completed within the harbour and an exercise target was located and recovered – mission accomplished. The second series of operations were focussed on delivering a demonstration for two VIP days, a media day and a day of filming by a BBC film crew. For the purpose of these events the team from Saab put together a demonstration of Sea Wasp within the BUTEC harbour basin.
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