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Steve Morrissette, from the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratory, performs final checks on a REMUS 600 during AUVfest 2008 on May 17, 2008, at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Narragansett Bay Test Range.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: John F. Williams\/Navy<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Navy Capt. Carl Hartsfield, a program manager for undersea capabilities, said the feat reflects the Navy’s commitment to integrating unmanned vehicles. He said the vehicle deployed by the North Dakota is from a class that is readily available on the commercial market and can be reconfigured to carry a wide range of payloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Navy has used unmanned vehicles to simulate enemy submarines for training purposes since the 1970s, and they also have been used to detect mines and map the ocean floor. The military has been researching how to use them more for other purposes including intelligence gathering and even anti-submarine warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The development of the undersea drones has been pioneered at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island, which in 2010 launched one that navigated its own way from Newport to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in what the military called an unprecedented feat. NUWC has worked closely with private companies, academic institutions and other government agencies involved in similar research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The drone deployed by the North Dakota was a Remus 600, a 500-pound, 10-foot-long vehicle that its maker, Hydroid, says can be equipped with video cameras, GPS devices and sonar technology. Gordon declined to say whether it was self-guided or piloted by a member of the submarine’s crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a first for the U.S. Navy, a submarine has launched and recovered an underwater drone used in a military operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48120,"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":88,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[15,88],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3096],"class_list":["post-95629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-military"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"RUHMTX2K7FDJZPZRDFNFWM53QY","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2015\/07\/21\/submarine-launches-undersea-drone-in-a-1st-for-navy\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n