Raytheon and CET Successfully Demo Hadalus Low-Cost, Long-Endurance UUV Undersea Launch for US Navy

Published Aug 10, 12:03 PM UTC

Raytheon, an RTX business, and Composite Energy Technologies (CET) have successfully demonstrated the undersea launch capabilities of the Hadalus, a new low-cost, long-endurance unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), during a U.S. Navy exercise. The 34-foot UUV, with a six-foot cross section and over 2,000 nautical miles of endurance, completed a series of at-sea missions on a Navy undersea test range, proving its submerged launch and autonomous mission capabilities. This marks the first time the U.S. Navy has seen this integrated capability in the water, pointing toward a future where a single unmanned undersea platform can perform detect, reacquire, and engage functions within one mission. The free-flooded, all-carbon-fiber exoskeleton delivers exceptional strength and payload capacity while enabling a significantly lower-cost architecture, designed to cost roughly one-third to one-fifth of comparable long-endurance vehicles. In less than 18 months, the companies progressed from a conceptual sketch to a complete prototype successfully demonstrated in water.