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Iver3 “The Seeker and Ranger operations Developed for civil and military in- were hugely valuable for our under- telligence, surveillance and reconnais-

Autonomous standing of what our customers need. sance (ISR) roles, the genesis of Echo

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For example, in bad weather the vehi- Voyager was in 2011. Boeing had found cle would need to be recovered, placed a way to come up with the capability to

Vehicles on the ship and pulled into port to ride allow maritime sectors to conduct to- out the storm: you’re still paying for day’s missions, whether it is defense or the crew and ship time, regardless of if commercial, in a far more cost effective you’re out at sea or in port. With all the manner. Echo Voyager introduces capa- experience from the ? rst two UUVs, bilities to the UUV realm which are not what we learned is that the operational currently available. cost for running underwater systems The ability to wet launch from a pier, can be very high, limiting our custom- independent of any surface ship, signi? - ers reach. We felt it was important to cantly reduces the operational cost of come up with a game-changing ad- missions. Due to its innovative modular vanced UUV that does not require sur- design, the 51-foot autonomous subma- face ship support,” said Towers. rine can also be maintained, refueled

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