Cellula Robotics LDUUV and XLUUV at West 2024
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- At West 2024 in San Diego, Canadian company Cellula Robotics was showcasing its Solus LR LDUUV and Solus XR XLUUV.
Kyle Macinnis, BD manager at Cellula Robotics, introduces the company as well as the two underwater vehicles. What makes Cellula's UUVs unique is their propulsion systems based on hydrogen fuel cells. This brings longer range and endurance compared to other systems on the market:
Solus LR has a range of 2,000 Km and an endurance of about 15 days.
Solus XR comes witha range of 5,000 Km
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Cool to see a Canadian company showcasing UUVs!
Unmanned-autonomous vehicles are becoming impressively advanced.
Great way to use hydrogen fuel cells, very quiet and extremely easy to make fuel. Can see a use in maritime protection for deep sea oil wells and sea bed pipe lines and a few other uses. Sweden should be sitting up and scratching their chin going Hmm we could make good use of those passive listening devices.
I wonder how the energy density compares to lithium batteries. You'd also have some overhead costs to install hydrogen production and storage facilities on the mothership.
The fuel cell energy density is much higher than an equivalent battery and had much more opportunities for range expansion by simply increasing the pressure. I consider it one of the best power sources for subsea outside of nuclear!
@@Nainara32 don't for get the LOX. I doubt the efficiency and added cost and maintenance of XLUUV using H2 and LOX is worth those downfalls. If it were the case, manned subs would be using it for a diesel or AIP replacement. For commercial purposes i could see some customers preferring a green fuel for there reputation and the environment of course.
Militarily it's either nuclear or DE. Non nuclear submarine users that want there subs to still travel large distances in blue water like Australia and Japan use diesel and batteries. Non nuclear submarine users that patrol in coastal waters, bays and fjords like Sweden, Germany and Norway use diesel and AIP. I think Spain's S80 has an ethanol and LOX AIP so i could see h and LOX used for that i guess.
What weaponry does a submarine has to counter this kind of long range, payload varied UUV? Other than torpedos. How would a submarine handle 10s of these if deployed for ASW mission to search & destroy ?
I've always thought Navies would develop air curtain defenses, but I've got no evidence to back it up other than "why wouldn't they build them?"
These are probably countered by similar UUVs and wide area hydrophones/sonars. Eventually we'll have drones hunting other drones while manned ships are observing from a distance.