Vantage 55

Austal Vantage 55 is a 55-metre optionally crewed surface-vessel platform designed for persistent maritime awareness, distributed payloads and crewed, remote or fully autonomous operation.

Facts

  • Company: Austal
  • Type: Uncrewed Surface Vessel
  • Positioning: Vantage 55
  • Function: Persistent maritime operations
  • Audience: Naval operators
  • Status: Commercial
  • Website: https://www.austal.com/ships/uncrewed-surface-vessels

Specifications

  • Hull Material: Steel
  • Optional Crew Capacity: Optional accommodation for 2, with modular capacity up to 14
  • Baseline Sensors Communications: Navigation and basic surface-search radar; EOS/IR; highly redundant SATCOM, HF and VHF
  • Length M: Length overall 55 metres
  • Beam M: Beam 9.6 metres
  • Max Speed Knots: Maximum speed 25 knots
  • Cruise Speed Knots: Cruise speed 12 knots
  • Range Nm: Range at cruise 6,000 nautical miles

Market context

Naval operators

  • Peer Group: Autonomous Surface Vessel, Long-Endurance USV, Marine Autonomy System, Maritime USV
  • Vantage 25 - Austal - Usv
  • Outpost - ThayerMahan - Usv

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