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AUTONOMOUS RESPONSE VESSELS

Kongsberg, Robert Allan Drive the Future of Marine Fighting

T e f rst vessel in the series will be the 20 meter RALamander 2000, featuring FiFi1 capability, pumping capacity of 2400 m3/hour and with optional foam capabilities.

By Joseph Keefe ancouver based naval architects and marine engi- background in offshore DP, sensing and communications neers Robert Allan Ltd., and international marine and Robert Allan Ltd's track record with designing ? re-

V technology specialist Kongsberg Maritime are col- boats for service all over the world. Den Hertog explains, laborating on the development of a radically new remotely- “Philosophically, we are also on the same page as far as operated ? reboat that will allow ? rst responders to attack setting realistic expectations for our clients and ourselves. dangerous port ? res more aggressively and safer than ever We see autonomy being an incremental process and are before. Like other autonomous efforts underway on the wa- both focused on practical solutions using best available terfront, this concept tackles and solves the so-called “3D’s” technology, not autonomy for its own sake within a more – dull, dirty and dangerous – of workboat drudgery. futuristic vision.”

The concept began as Kongsberg and Robert Allan Ltd

The Future of Marine Fire? ghting Unveiled jointly responded to a number of inquiries for other type un- manned workboats requiring a communications solutions The un-crewed RALamander ? reboat will offer in-close based on Kongsberg's Marine Broadband Radio (MBR) ? re? ghting and ‘eye in the ? re’ capability that keeps ma- system. The fruit of those labors is the RALamander. rine ? re? ghting professionals out of harm's way. Fires in-

According to Vince den Hertog, RAL’s Vice President volving containers, petrochemicals, shore-side structures of Engineering, the project that plays well to the respec- or vessels can be attacked more quickly in situations where tive strengths of both ? rms, given Kongsberg's strong toxic smoke or explosion risk may delay or even prevent (*) Images / Renderings: Kongsberg and RAL

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