Overview
- Teledyne Gavia delivered four GAVIA autonomous underwater vehicle systems to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration as the first tranche under a multi-year agreement.
- The systems are intended to support Swedish Armed Forces fleet modernization by improving underwater surveillance and operational efficiency.
- A modular architecture enables quick reconfiguration for mine countermeasures, hydrography, intelligence collection, seabed mapping, and general surveillance.
- The latest units can deploy from ship or shore, operate to 500 or 1,000 meters depending on configuration, and carry sensors such as EdgeTech 2205 side-scan sonar and Teledyne FLIR Blackfly-S cameras, with options for synthetic aperture sonar, magnetometers, and multibeam echosounders.
- Teledyne reports broad adoption, with GAVIA in 18 navies, more than 12,000 APEX floats and 1,275 Slocum gliders delivered, and unmanned subsea systems fielded by numerous NATO and AUKUS navies.