Serial production of the promising marine robot is scheduled for 2024-2025
Moscow. November 18. INTERFAX-Russia plans to develop a promising uninhabited underwater vehicle with increased autonomy by 2024, according to public procurement materials.
According to SPARK-Interfax, the Russian Ministry of industry and trade has announced an open competition to find a developer of a prototype of a promising Autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicle with increased autonomy (ANPA-PA). To achieve an increase in the duration and range of the device's navigation, it is planned to use an air-independent power plant (VNEU) based on a hydrogen-oxygen battery.
The Agency intends to spend 500 million rubles for this purpose. Development work (R & d) under the state defense order should be completed in October 2023, and the estimated time frame for the introduction of the new device is 2024-2025.
According to the documentation, a promising marine robot with a hull diameter of up to 300 mm will be equipped with a hydroacoustic complex (SAC) and radio communication facilities. It must operate independently for at least 24 hours at a depth of 1000 meters, reach a maximum speed under water of at least 2.5 m / s, automatically avoid obstacles, take pictures of the bottom surface and objects in water areas with a water density of 1000-1054 kg / m3, and measure environmental parameters (temperature, sound speed, pressure) over the entire range of operating depths of immersion.
The Ministry of industry and trade assumes that the new underwater drone will be of interest to the Ministry of defense, the Navy, other law enforcement agencies, as well as civilian customers-companies engaged in the exploration of marine minerals, marine oil and gas production, hydrographic and Oceanographic works.
As reported by Interfax, the United shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is currently developing the appearance of promising Autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicles with the ability to release/receive from existing and promising underwater carriers. According to the Corporation's annual report for 2019, the completion date for these works is 2025.
The project is called Perspektiva R and is being developed by the Rubin Central design Bureau of marine engineering (Rubin Central design Bureau), Russia's leading design Bureau for underwater shipbuilding and one of the world's leaders in the design of submarines.