{"id":34171,"date":"2017-02-04T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T04:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/navy-knifefish-undersea-drone-finds-mines-in-test"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:44:54","slug":"navy-knifefish-undersea-drone-finds-mines-in-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/navy-knifefish-undersea-drone-finds-mines-in-test","title":{"rendered":"Navy Knifefish undersea drone finds mines in test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navy-knifefish-undersea-drone-finds-mines-in-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s Knifefish underwater mine hunting drone recently helped identify and destroy a number of targets in a key test of the system\u2019s development, service officials said.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent assessment in Narragansett Bay, R.I., the 21-foot Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) used low-frequency broadband synthetic aperture sonar to find stealthy undersea mine targets, said Capt. Jon Rucker, program manager, Unmanned Maritime Systems, PEO LCS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put eight targets down across a range. The vehicle went around to detect the targets,\u201d Rucker explained.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/defensesystems.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/03\/knifefish.aspx?admgarea=DS\">https:\/\/defensesystems.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/03\/knifefish.aspx?admgarea=DS<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy\u2019s Knifefish underwater mine hunting drone recently helped identify and destroy a number of targets in a key test of the system\u2019s development, service officials said. During a recent assessment in Narragansett Bay, R.I., the 21-foot Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) used low-frequency broadband synthetic aperture sonar to find stealthy undersea mine targets, said Capt. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58864,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171\/revisions\/58864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}