Defence Industry Service Commendation – Paul Montgomery Recognition of outstanding career of service to the Australian Defence Force and defence industry BlueZone is pleased to announce that Paul “Monty” Montgomery has been selected as one of seven new recipients of the Defence Industry Service Commendation. The Defence Industry Service Commendation is an initiative launched by […]
Unmanned Surface Vehicles for ASW Barrier Operations BlueZone Group is pleased to announce the award of a Defence Innovation Hub contract for a Concept Exploration Phase study for Offboard Detection, Classification and Localisation (Offboard DCL) using unmanned systems. BlueZone Group and partners propose to develop a highly automated system to contribute to Navy surface combatant […]
Maritime Unmanned Systems Take Centre Stage at NATO ASW, MCM and More will be enabled by New Technology A report from the Underwater Defence and Security Conference, Southampton, March 2019 Recent developments in NATO point to a renewed focus on maritime warfare after decades of land warfare driven concerns. A resurgent Russian naval capability is […]
Subsea Supercharger Brings Electric Power to the Seafloor An energy revolution coming to the seabed The Subsea Supercharger developed by Teledyne Energy Systems enables persistent AUV/ROV operations without needing a crew nearby to retrieve or redeploy the underwater vehicles, or a tether to supply power from above the water. In addition to the AUV/ROV operations, […]
Boost to Australian Defence Industry and Innovation Sector BlueZone Group is pleased to join with other innovative companies to develop enhanced capability for Defence following the award of a Defence Innovation Hub contract. The BlueZone innovation will demonstrate that unmanned surface vehicles can enhance underwater and anti-submarine warfare capability. #AheadOfTheTide #innovation #defence #unmanned #ASW Read More Boost to […]
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Mine Counter Measures Reaching Full Potential with Identification Capability There are Four Phases in a Mine Counter Measures (MCM) operation with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles currently able to contribute capability to the first two phases: 1) Detection. AUV search using side-scan sonar 2) Classification. Diver or AUV with Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) […]
REMUS M3V – Micro 300m UUV Sonobuoy A-size UUVs enable an accelerated MCM timeline Mine Counter Measures (MCM) phases of Detection, Classification and Identification can be constrained by the availability of assets to simultaneously search a large area. Cost and the availability of trained resources also limit the operations that can be performed. The REMUS […]
REMUS Sea Launcher Autonomous Deployment and Recovery of UUVs from a USV The REMUS Sea Launcher is a transformational capability that links Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) operations. Sea Launcher has been developed to meet the requirements for further increments of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Mission Package. […]
DeepWater Buoyancy New Products for Offshore Oil & Gas DeepWater Buoyancy has announced a range of new products to service the Offshore Oil & gas market: Jumper Buoyancy modules are fabricated with either a rotationally-moulded polyethylene shell or with a GRP skin. In all cases, high-performance DeepTec® syntactic foam provides buoyancy. An integral elastomeric clamp […]
Z-Boat Unmanned Vehicles as a Force Multiplier The Teledyne Oceanscience Z-Boat is a low-cost but powerful force multiplier, providing the capability of a small boat manned by one or two people in a much smaller platform and with endurance only limited by battery power. Integration of a Multi Beam Echo Sounder such as the Teledyne […]
