Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Russia Is Developing An Underwater Drone That Will Be Able To Imitate Any Submarine

© Rubin Central Design Bureau

TASS: Russia developing robot able to imitate any submarine

This submarine imitator provides for up to 15-16 hours of naval exercises, reproducing an enemy submarine’s maneuvering, including at high speed

MOSCOW, December 6. /TASS/. Specialists of Russia’s Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering have developed a conceptual design of a seaborne robotized system called Surrogat for holding naval exercises, the design bureau’s press office told TASS on Tuesday.

Currently negotiations are under way with the Navy on this project, the press office said.

Surrogat is equipped with a lithium-ion battery. This submarine imitator provides for up to 15-16 hours of naval exercises, reproducing an enemy submarine’s maneuvering, including at high speed, over this time.

The robot’s relatively large size (about 17 meters long) and the ability to carry towed sonar arrays for various applications will help realistically reproduce an enemy submarine’s physical fields - acoustic and electromagnetic, the Rubin design bureau said.

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Update: Russia Says It's Working on a Drone That Can Imitate Any Sub (Popular Mechanics)

WNU Editor: The applications for such a drone are nuemrous .... it could be used in navy war games, decoys, intelligence gathering, etc..

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