The Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle (LUSV) is an unmanned surface vessel designed for the United States Navy and set to begin construction in 2020. Designed to be low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships based on commercial designs, they will have the capacity for modular payloads such as anti-ship, anti-submarine or anti-air weapons.

2023年4月5日 · As part of the CDD process, the Navy will first give industry the specific requirements for the LUSV propulsion system ahead of creating the shore-based power plant, Gilday said.

2023年9月18日 · U.S. Navy's latest drone boats, USV (unmanned surface vessel) Mariner and LUSV (large unmanned surface vessel) Ranger, made a port call at Yokosuka of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan on August 18, a very rare opportunity to see them in Japan, including Sasebo in western Japan.

3 天之前 · The U.S. Navy is making a significant push toward uncrewed naval warfare, with three key programs—Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle (LUSV), Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV), and the Extra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV), also known as Orca—set to transform the maritime battlespace.

2024年3月26日 · ‘One Step Closer’ The LUSV program is the US Navy’s way to field a state-of-the-art autonomous vessel that is 200 to 300 feet (61 to 91 meters) long, or a third of the size of existing navy frigates. The drone ship will be used to support various missions, including electronic warfare, anti-surface warfare, and land-strike warfare.

2023年3月2日 · LUSVs must be scaled to meet the Navy’s warfighting mission, and Congress must resource the supporting pillars to ensure effective outcomes. When every manned US Navy ship is a Surface Action Group, this distributed hybrid fleet will be more lethal, survivable, and ready to fight and win maritime wars against peer adversaries.

2023年12月20日 · The Bollinger team is the first to successfully complete the 720-hour no-touch electrical generation and distribution system demonstration. It is now eligible for use on the LUSV program. Five...

2023年11月6日 · “LUSV will support Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and provide the Joint Force with an adjunct missile magazine capability and capacity. Primary missions include the support of Anti-Surface Warfare (SUW) and Strike Warfare (STW),” according to the notice.

2021年11月8日 · The U.S. Army or U.S. Marines can have multiple TRX vehicles aboard a LUSV that can fire impressive armed drone swarms controlled by Human Operators far away on ships, planes, and land.

2020年9月7日 · The U.S. Navy is building a first-of-its-kind large drone boat intended to coordinate fleets of unmanned systems, conduct surveillance missions, operate weapons such as Tomahawks and interceptor...