Say hello to this lightweight autonomous surface vessel

What you're looking at here is the Sonobot 5 USB. This is a fully autonomous unmanned surface vehicle

Carbon fiber construction, modular design, payload options include right here a multi-beam EECO sounder

You can have a side-scan sonar, single-beam EECO sounder, or even one of our transceiver heads for tracking of underwater targets

forward-looking camera, single or dual GNSS, 10-knot top speed, run time between 8 and 10 hours

The genesis of this was really novel bionics, basically in design, a sleek, easy to transport

high-performance vehicle that could carry a number of different payload options, be easy to deploy and operate

Depending on payload options, you're looking at a weight of between 50 and 60 pounds, fully collapsible

This pontoon right here rolls up under the wing, and then the wing under the body itself

so it's easy to transport and deploy in just a couple of class

Hot swappable batteries right here with lithium batteries located in each pontoon

I can change these out in about 20 seconds so you can get a full work day out of it

If you need be you can swap those batteries out to extend runtime range would depend on some some of the communication options The Silvestreamcaster radio right here can be operated with a standoff distance of approximately 25 miles

Iridium satellite is actually also a communication option as well. Some of the key job tasks that you might use this for would be SAR uses

Defense applications would include ISR as well as MCM. These are used for locating mine-like objects

has an on board a I target recognition module so it will actually go out make

auto recognition of targets that it discovers on side scan sonar saw send that back real time to operation stations

for decision-making designed to operate and up to see state three so generally

speaking coastal areas I'm and inland waterways I would say is really where I think the sweet spot for

a vehicle like this is so some of the customers that are currently using this are tactical law

enforcement uses naval offices for survey, and those that are actually in EOD, searching for mine-like objects and so forth

This is actually designed to operate individually depending on need, or it can operate in fleet swarm capabilities as well