Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, funding and a captured Chinese. UUV.
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, funding and a captured Chinese. UUV. The US Congress, via the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), has proposed a bill that will ensure up to US$150 billion for defence spending for the remainder of this year with allocations of over US $1.8 billion for the manufacture of medium Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), US $1.3 billion for the development of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs), and US$188.36 million for the development and testing of maritime robotic autonomous systems and enabling technologies. Another US $250 million will go to the development of wave-powered UUVs like the Slocum glider which looked as though the Chinese have copied its design, with a glider-type UUV found near the Philippines and looking much like captured Slocum gliders, with Chinese lettering marking “HY-119” and “HY-L0119” on the rear of the underwater UUV. Chinese UUV In 2009, the first transatlantic UUV with no engine to propel it forward rode the ocean currents ...
