{"id":77,"date":"2013-12-06T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-12-06T01:37:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:37:51","slug":"navy-launches-a-drone-from-a-submerged-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.defenseone.com\/media\/img\/upload\/2013\/12\/05\/Navy-Drone-Sub\/defense-large.jpg\" \/><button type=\"button\"><\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/voices\/stephanie-gaskell\/7205\/\">Stephanie Gaskell<\/a>4:37 PM ET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1>Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/topic\/navy\/\">NAVY<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/topic\/drones\/\">DRONES<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/topic\/technology\/\">TECHNOLOGY<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2013\/12\/navy-launches-drone-submerged-submarine\/75026\/#\">AA\u00a0Font size +<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Naval Research Lab just launched a\u00a0<\/strong>drone from a submerged submarine \u2013 giving a huge edge to the future of special operations.<\/p>\n<p>It took six years to develop and launch an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, folding-wing drone aircraft from a submerged submarine. The eXperimental Fuel Cell Unmanned Aerial System, or XFC UAS, was fired from the submarine&#8217;s torpedo tube using a \u201cSea Robin\u201d launch system, which is designed to fit within an empty Tomahawk launch canister used for launching Tomahawk cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div>\u00a0Stephanie Gaskell is associate editor and senior reporter for Defense One. She previously covered the Pentagon for Politico. Gaskell has covered war, politics and breaking news for nearly 20 years, including at the Associated Press, the New York Post and the New York Daily News. She has reported &#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/voices\/stephanie-gaskell\/7205\/\">Full Bio<\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The XFC UAS uses an electrically assisted take-off system which lifts the plane vertically out of its container. Once deployed from the submarine, the Sea Robin launch vehicle rose to the ocean surface where it appeared as a spar buoy. The drone then vertically launched and flew a \u201csuccessful several hour mission demonstrating live video capabilities streamed back to Providence [R.I.], surface support vessels and Norfolk [Va.]\u201d before landing at the Naval Sea Systems Command Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis six-year effort represents the best in collaboration of a Navy laboratory and industry to produce a technology that meets the needs of the special operations community,&#8221; said Dr. Warren Schultz, program developer and manager, NRL. &#8220;The creativity and resourcefulness brought to this project by a unique team of scientists and engineers represents an unprecedented paradigm shift in UAV propulsion and launch systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project was funded by SwampWorks at the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2013\/12\/navy-launches-drone-submerged-submarine\/75026\/\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2013\/12\/navy-launches-drone-submerged-submarine\/75026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Gaskell4:37 PM ET Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine NAVYDRONESTECHNOLOGY AA\u00a0Font size + The Naval Research Lab just launched a\u00a0drone from a submerged submarine \u2013 giving a huge edge to the future of special operations. It took six years to develop and launch an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, folding-wing drone aircraft from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-drone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}