A new arms race is unfolding on the ocean floor
German defense-tech firm Euroatlas has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle named GreyShark to protect critical seabed infrastructure. The vehicle is designed to patrol strategic areas independently, identifying threats like mines or sabotage without requiring constant human supervision. This technology addresses the logistical challenge of monitoring vast ocean floors, where traditional crewed assets are too expensive and scarce to provide continuous coverage.
- ▪Euroatlas has created the GreyShark, an autonomous underwater vehicle capable of operating without continuous human control.
- ▪The vehicle can identify suspicious objects, such as mines, and report them to operators for further decision-making.
- ▪Company officials argue that crewed assets like frigates and submarines are insufficient for maintaining constant visibility across the entire ocean.
- ▪The development aims to solve the problem of scale in protecting strategic assets like cables and pipelines from sabotage or enemy submarines.
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Germany-based defense-tech company Euroatlas is another company with its sights set on the potentially lucrative business of defending the seabed. It has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle called GreyShark that can travel to an assigned area and carry out a mission without continuous human control, according to Verineia Codrean, the company's chief strategy and partnerships officer. It's designed to avoid obstacles and follow predetermined instructions when it encounters something unexpected. While inspecting a pipeline, for example, it could identify a mine-like object, report the discovery and wait for an operator to decide whether it should investigate further.
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