It will replace the Navy’s Mk18 Mod 1 Swordfish, also based on HII’s Remus technology, Duane Fotheringham, the president of unmanned systems in HII’s mission technologies division, told ...

The Navy has 27 Mod 1 Swordfish, designed for low-visibility exploration and reconnaissance to support amphibious landings, mine countermeasures detection and hydrographic mapping in the very shallow ...

Since fielding the Mk 18 Mod 1 Swordfish in the early 2000s, the community has already benefitted from the larger Mod 2 Kingfish – with its greater payload capacity and longer endurance – as ...

The service’s investment in the people and in the Mk 18 Mod 1 Swordfish and the Mk 18 Mod 2 Kingfish unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) they operate come as the Navy is also planning to merge ...

The Mk 18 Mod 1 Swordfish and Mk 18 Mod 2 Kingfish date back to the late 1990s and 2000s. The former is a 150-pound small UUV that could be carried in and out of the water by a couple sailors; the ...

Sailors retrieve a Mk 18 Mod 1 unmanned underwater vehicle from the Gulf of Oman aboard mine countermeasures ship USS Dextrous (MCM 13), May 9, 2023. Dextrous participated in a weeklong Oman-led naval ...