AUV Bluefin-9M

The Bluefin-9M is a lightweight, two-man-portable autonomous underwater vehicle with a mission turnaround time of less than 15 minutes. Equipped with a variety of user-selected payloads for multiple applications, the Bluefin-9M provides the performance of much larger AUVs in a convenient and rapidly deployable package. Applications for the Bluefin-9M include: Inshore Survey Environmental Protection and Monitoring Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Port & Harbor Security Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Rapid Environmental Assessment (REA) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) FEATURES EASY DEPLOYMENT The lightweight Bluefin-9M is easily deployed by two people from any small boat and requires minimal support equipment. the vehicle is also designed to accommodate various launch and recovery systems. RAPID TURNAROUND With a pressure-tolerant battery and a removable data storage module, turnaround time between missions is less than 15 minutes. FIELD-MAINTAINABLE Easy access to fieldswappable, modular subsystems reduces time on deck for maintenance and accelerates operational tempo. INTUITIVE SOFTWARE Bluefin’s intuitive software package enables quick and easy mission planning and monitoring. Post-mission analysis can be completed with Bluefin tools or exported to third-party packages. ACCURATE NAVIGATION The vehicle uses an INS to provide the best possible navigation accuracy. Dead reckoning drift is typically less than 0.1% of distance traveled, yielding higher quality data.