New Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Can Recharge Other Vessels

April 1, 2026

Lockheed Martin
Palm Beach, FL
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Lockheed Martin has unveiled the Lamprey Multi Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (MMAUV), a breakthrough “plug-and-play” submersible that gives U.S. and allied warfighters technological and strategic advantages in today’s contested maritime arena.

Built with the U.S. Navy’s need for covert, assured access and sea denial operations, LampreyMMAUV can arrive in theater with a fully charged battery. Mimicking nature, it can hitch a ride on a host surface vessel or submarine, utilize hydrogenators to charge batteries and arrive in theater ready for operational missions. LampreyMMAUV can perform a wide range of missions including delivering undersea and air kinetic and non-kinetic effects; performing intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, targeting, and multi-intelligence collection; and deploying equipment to the seafloor.

Mimicking nature, the vehicle attaches onto a host surface ship or submarine - no host modifications needed – once attached it recharges batteries with built in hydrogenators. From anti submarine torpedoes to UAV launchers, the open architecture payload bay lets customers tailor the vehicle to any mission set. The undersea vehicle can execute Assured Access (stealthy intelligence, persistent surveillance, precision strike) or Sea Denial (electronic disruption, decoy deployment, kinetic attack), giving commanders a single platform that flips the maritime balance of power.

“LampreyMMAUV was internally funded, letting us iterate at lightning speed and hand the Navy a true multi mission weapon that detects, disrupts, decoys and engages on its own,” said Paul Lemmo, Vice President of Sensors, Effectors & Mission Systems at Lockheed Martin.

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