The Pentagon’s top defense tech innovator has remained mum in recent months on the progress of its futuristic submarine-tracking ocean vessel the Sea Hunter — aka the U.S. Navy’s shiny new toy. It has provided only a brief fact sheet and sparse updates on the rig’s production. Today, with construction complete and the ACTUV (pronounced “active”) scheduled to head to San Diego later this month for testing, DARPA has finally pulled back the veil on its revolutionary ship and Digital Trends was on deck to see what all the fuss was about.
Until the unveil, the only available pictures of Sea Hunter consisted of a batch of artist renderings, so understanding its true scale was a bit hard to fathom. It wasn’t until we stepped foot on a small dock in Southeast Portland that we got a true sense of the rig’s scale. Measuring 132 feet from bow to stern and boasting a displacement of roughly 145 tons when fully loaded with fuel and an onboard payload, the ACTUV is quite large. Constructed of a fiberglass composite exterior and foam core, the ship was built to absorb high amounts of stress while remaining incredibly sturdy.
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