Lockheed Martin launches UAV from AUV

Lockheed Martin has now disclosed that during the Annual Navy Technology Exercise (ANTX) in August, it successfully launched a Vector Hawk canister-launched small unmanned aerial vehicle from its Marlin MK2 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

Photo: Lockheed Martin

To transmit the launch command to the Marlin, Lockheed engineers relied on the Submaran, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) developed by Ocean Aero, as a relay.