Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has actually protected an agreement honor with Polish shipbuilder Remontowa Shipbuilding SA (RSB) to provide 3 shipsets of Kongsberg Hugin Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) systems and also associated HiPAP positioning and also interaction systems for 3 newbuild battleships for the Polish Navy.
The overall agreement worth goes beyond EUR10 million, with the Kongsberg devices prepared for the following 3 ships in the Kormoran II Mine-Countermeasures (MCM) vessel program (# 4, # 5, and also # 6).
These 3 ships will certainly be supplied in between 2026 and also 2027. To match the vessel shipment routine, the 3 HUGIN/HiPAP shipsets will certainly be supplied to the backyard over the following 4 years.
KONGSBERG HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicles are aquatic robotics for independent remote subsea search and also study procedures.
“These free-swimming autonomous underwater vehicles are characterised by great manoeuvrability and excellent stability for high-quality data collection. Hydrodynamic shape, accurate instruments and excellent battery capacity make these AUVs a popular choice for governments and militaries worldwide. One of the many benefits of the HUGIN systems is their modular platform and wide range of options” Kongsberg stated.
HUGIN AUV Credit: Kongsberg Maritime
As shared by Kongsberg Maritime, the HUGINs aboard the Kormoran II vessels will certainly take advantage of:
“Capable of fully autonomous operations without surface vessel support, HUGIN is also designed to work in conjunction with the HiPAP (High Precision Acoustic Positioning) family of underwater positioning and navigation systems. This allows for high-accuracy position updates for the vehicle, as well as real-time communications for status, sensor quality assurance and on-the-fly mission replanning,” Kongsberg stated.
According to protection magazine Janes, the non-magnetic steel hull Kormoran II course is developed for minehunting in Poland’s special financial area (EEZ), with job pressures in the Baltic and also North seas. The vessels are meant to supply significant rise of Polish MCM abilities, increasing the variety of existing Kormoran II kind vessels in solution, to protect the sea lines of interactions.
The Kormoran IIs course minehunters have a complete tons variation of 850 tonnes, a total size of 58.5 m and also can lug a staff enhance of 45, with lodging for 7 added employees. The RSB’s very own internal layout is a multi-toolbox idea, crossbreed option, minehunter where HUGIN AUV is among undersea systems for stand – off mine countermeasure procedures.
Commenting on the agreement honor, Kongsberg Maritime SVP Stene Førsund stated: “These latest contracts are a true acknowledgment of a team effort over many years, and it shows that Kongsberg Maritime offers the right technology and solutions for the growing AUV market. We see that customers put AUVs into operation in many applications, and we believe that Autonomous Underwater Vehicles will be used in even more applications in the future. We have some big-name clients, but when the navy of a sovereign nation and fellow NATO member continues to put its trust in our technologies, it’s an inspiring moment for us.”
Dariusz Jaguszewski, CCO at Remontowa Shipbuilding stated: “These mine countermeasure vessels represent an important contract for Remontowa Shipbuilding as well as an important statement and reinforcement of Poland’s national security in a fast-changing world. Kongsberg Maritime has already successfully delivered and commissioned HUGIN and HiPAP systems to us for the first three vessels in the Kormoran II program. The experience of nine years work with Kongsberg through these deliveries has been highly professional throughout and we are confident that the technologies to be delivered represent the state-of-the-art in underwater autonomy and mine countermeasure systems.”
