Teledyne Marine Awarded Long-Term Contract to Support REPMUS Exercises
Teledyne Marine has announced the award of a strategic long-term contract with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide support for the annual REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Unmanned Systems) exercises starting this year.REPMUS 2025 will take place from September 8 to 25, 2025, in Tróia and Sesimbra, Portugal. Organized by the Portuguese Navy in collaboration with NATO, the event brings together over 2,000 participants from allied navies, industry, academia, and international organizations.This multi-year agreement underscores Teledyne’s
Russian Navy Holds Underwater Saboteur Drills in Baltic Sea
Russian forces have conducted an exercise in the Baltic Sea including drills to repel an underwater attack, the defence ministry said on Friday.Units of divers "demonstrated skills in detecting and capturing a group of underwater saboteurs, as well as using FPV (first person view) drones to destroy unmanned boats of a mock enemy", the ministry said.The drills were aimed partly at assessing the navy's anti-submarine sabotage defence units, it said.It was the second time this month that Russia has held naval exercises with an anti-submarine component, after U.S. President Donald Trump said
Blueye Robotics to Deliver ROVs to the Netherlands Royal Navy
Blueye Robotics, together with local partner RVI Tools, has secured a major international contract to supply underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to the Netherlands Royal Navy.The ROV systems will be delivered with advanced capabilities tailored for military engineers and mine countermeasure (MCM) teams.The awarded contract highlights the increasing demand for compact, user-friendly underwater systems to support complex military operations in inshore and coastal environments. The ROV will be used in a wide range of mission profiles including:Diving operations: supporting reconnaissance,
Saab Acquires Swedish Pressure Vessel Company
Saab has become the new owner of Deform AB in Degerfors, Sweden.Deform is a forming company with four main business areas: pressure vessels, protection, heavy fabrication, and heavy equipment. The company specializes in hot and cold forming of various types of metallic materials. The business started in 1907 and has been called Deform since 1987. The company currently has 37 employees.The acquisition strengthens the security of supply for the Swedish defense industry.Deform has a long and close relationship with Saab as a supplier of specialty parts for Saab’s submarine production and is an
EUROATLAS, Rheinmetall Partner to Integrate GREYSHARK AUVs into Coastal Defense Systems
EUROATLAS, backed by Mimir Group, and Germany’s leading international systems supplier for the defense industry, Rheinmetall, announced a strategic partnership to integrate EUROATLAS’s advanced autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), GREYSHARK, into Rheinmetall Battlesuite.Rheinmetall Battlesuite is the company’s modular, AI-enabled digital platform designed to unify and manage multi-domain defense systems. This integration will support selected coastal defense use cases, where Battlesuite acts as the digital backbone of Rheinmetall’s system-of-systems infrastructure for maritime
Spear AI Raises Funding to Apply AI to Submarine Data
A startup founded by U.S. Navy veterans aiming to help the U.S. military use artificial intelligence to decipher data gathered by submarines has raised its first round of outside capital.Washington-based Spear AI specializes in working with what is known as passive acoustic data, which is gathered by listening devices underwater. Its long-term aim is to use AI to help submarine operators understand whether an object heard could be a rain squall, a whale, or a vessel that could be a threat, and to detect where it is and how fast it is moving.The challenge is that most existing AI tools are trained
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