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REMUS 620

Medium-class modular AUV with multi-day advertised endurance and documented customer procurement and integration trials.

Country / region
United States
Programme status
Order / production commitment
Sources reviewed
20 Sept 2026
Order / production commitmentOrder / production commitment
Primary domain
Underwater
System type
Autonomous underwater vehicle
Developer / manufacturer
HII
Origin / production countries
United States
Other names
No additional names recorded
Variants / configurations
One-, two- and three-battery base configurations; Payload-specific configurations
Operators / programme customers
Unnamed Indo-Pacific customer — sale reported by HII

Evidence & current status

Procurement and integration are documented by the supplier. The maximum duration and range require their stated energy configuration and cannot be combined with minimum mass.

Role & capabilities

  • Multi-day underwater survey
  • Modular payload carriage
  • Environmental and seabed sensing

Specifications in context

Configuration
Modular medium-class untethered AUV

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Hull / propulsion
Battery-electric propeller propulsion

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Dimensions
One-battery base: approximately 2.7 m long; 32.4 cm diameter

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Displacement / mass
One-battery base: approximately 188 kg

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Payload
Configurable wet and dry modules; no universal spare payload mass stated

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Endurance
Base configurations: 42–110 hours according to battery count

Sonar-equipped examples have lower endurance; maximum is not valid for every payload.

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Range
Base configurations: 204–509 km according to battery count

Published travel range, not communications reach; payload-equipped examples differ.

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Speed
2–8 kt, dependent on configuration and environment

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Operating depth
600 m

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Sensors
Environmental sensors; configurable sonar and other payloads

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Communications / control
Acoustic, satellite and Wi-Fi links; onboard autonomous mission control

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Launch / deployment
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.

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