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RIMPAC USV Tests Shaping Future Navy Unmanned Vehicle Choices

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RIMPAC USV Tests Shaping Future Navy Unmanned Vehicle Choices
Medium displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sails in formation during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 on July 28. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aleksandr Freutel)

The Navy’s experimentation with unmanned surface vessels (USVs) during the biennial Rim of the Pacific 2022 exercise is helping it shape the future of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), service officials said last week. RIMPAC prototyping and experimentation “is a significant event. Allowing us, with the fleet…to explore [concepts of operations] with fleet, maturation, and sustainment. Just as importantly is the feedback loop to our office and engineers and scientists as part of the scientific method,” Rear Adm. Casey Moton, Program…

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