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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSeagull comes equipped with dipping sonars and torpedoes, which Elbit has put through dozens of tests, including live-fire trials earlier last year.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Courtesy of Elbit Systems<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Similarly, Elbit executives say the system has been designed to compensate for human error, with algorithms that instruct the ship to avoid collision at all cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Seagull can be launched from ports, Elbit executives say it is ideal for expeditionary forces at sea, where its design allows it to be launched from a mother ship or packed in a container and airlifted to hot spots via C-17 transports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Seagull was designed to be organic. It can launch and recover from a mothership anywhere in the world. And it can be sent by air anywhere in the world,”\u00a0Marom\u00a0said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For expeditionary forces, he said, data generated by Seagull\u2019s sensors are transmitted to the mothership or to bases on shore. “Commanders or civilian leaders can see the picture and everyone can share the information based on the same pictures from deep underneath the sea.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n A senior Elbit executive who recently retired as head of operations for the Israeli Navy said the ASW role performed by Seagull returns the asymmetric advantage to those seeking to counter threats from terror organizations or state sponsors of terror, which are increasingly turning to mini- and midget submarines to lay mines and attack much larger and more powerful forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With regard to Iran, whose undersea force consists of three Kilo-class submarines and at least a dozen of midget subs, the Seagull USV “will change the dynamic,” the former Navy commander said. “The only way to deal in an efficient and cost-effective manner with the growing submarine threat\u00a0\u2014\u00a0particularly the smaller undersea platforms\u00a0\u2014\u00a0is to counter them with robots<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The economic, psychological and operative threat from these cheap, asymmetric weapons is enormous; as is the cost to buy, operate and maintain fleets of minesweepers, mine hunters and various support ships. … Seagull reverses this asymmetry with a safe and economical means of combating such threats.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seagull is fully autonomous and is controlled via line of sight or satellite communications data links for operations at unlimited ranges, according to an Elbit executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":52070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":132,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[11,47,16,30,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2818],"class_list":["post-24307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-mideast-africa","category-naval","category-smr","category-unmanned-unleashed"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"PQVDFZQCB5BRNDMVWSH4PTLGWI","arc_canonical_url":"\/smr\/unmanned-unleashed\/2017\/03\/28\/elbit-offers-multimission-unmanned-naval-robot\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n