Kraken Robotics Inc. has secured $13 million in orders for its synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) systems and subsea batteries. The orders come from customers in the United States, Norway, and Turkey, including a single customer order for 10 SAS units.
The Kraken SAS and SeaPower battery systems from this order will be integrated on four different types of uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) platforms, ranging in size from small-class to large-class.
Kraken SAS and SeaPower batteries are built to be platform agnostic, coming in several different configurations with modular components to easily integrate into existing or new platforms. This month, several UUV platforms will be equipped with Kraken SAS and SeaPower batteries as over 20 countries collaborate on naval missions during the Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS) exercise in Portugal. Last year, Kraken SAS was used to classify more than 50 mine-like objects during the annual month-long exercise.
Greg Reid, President and CEO of Kraken Robotics, stated, “Many defense clients are moving toward Kraken SAS over sidescan because it offers significantly increased area coverage rates and consistent high resolution across the entire swath. In contested areas when you only have a limited amount of time to survey, Kraken SAS ensures you are getting wide swaths of usable data to enable faster, more accurate identification of subsea hazards.”
