Product profile
Vantage 55
Austal Vantage 55 is a 55-metre optionally crewed surface-vessel platform designed for persistent maritime awareness, distributed payloads and crewed, remo...
Facts
- Company
- Austal
- Product type
- usv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- maritime_surveillance
- Website
- https://www.austal.com/ships/uncrewed-surface-vessels
About 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.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Uncrewed surface vessel
Core: Vantage 55
Function: Persistent maritime operations
Audience: Naval operators
Specifications
- baseline_sensors_communications
- Navigation and basic surface-search radar; EOS/IR; highly redundant SATCOM, HF and VHF
- beam_m
- Beam 9.6 metres m
- control_modes
- Crewed, remote from ship or shore, and fully autonomous
- cruise_speed_knots
- Cruise speed 12 knots kn
- deck_capacity
- Deck area for 8 x TEU (20-foot containers); up to 4 maximum-weight TEU stated
- hull_material
- Steel
- length_m
- Length overall 55 metres m
- max_speed_knots
- Maximum speed 25 knots kn
- optional_crew_capacity
- Optional accommodation for 2, with modular capacity up to 14 people
- payload_capacity_tonnes
- Payload 100 tonnes t
- propulsion
- Diesel-electric propulsion power architecture
- range_nm
- Range at cruise 6,000 nautical miles nmi
Operations
- Environment
- marine_surface, offshore, defence
- Primary user
- naval operators, maritime security teams, marine-system integrators
- Role
- maritime_surveillance, payload_integration, surface_operations
- Interaction model
- autonomous, remote_supervised, optionally_crewed
- Mobility class
- surface_vessel
- Product detail
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