Product profile
DriX H-9
Exail DriX H-9 is a 9 m long-range uncrewed surface vessel for hydrographic and marine-data collection. It offers up to 20 days of endurance, 2,000 nautica...
Facts
- Company
- Exail
- Product type
- usv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- long-range autonomous hydrographic survey
- Website
- https://www.exail.com/product-range/drix-series-uncrewed-surface-vessels
About DriX H-9
Exail DriX H-9 is a 9 m long-range uncrewed surface vessel for hydrographic and marine-data collection. It offers up to 20 days of endurance, 2,000 nautical miles of range, 13-knot speed and survey-payload operation to 3,000 m depth.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Survey USV
Core: DriX H-9
Function: Offshore surveys
Audience: Hydrographic teams
Specifications
- displacement_t
- 2.1 t t
- endurance_days
- <20 days days
- fuel_capacity_l
- 550 L L
- length_m
- 9 m m
- max_speed_knots
- <13 knots knots
- mbes_operating_depth_m
- 3,000 m m
- range_nm
- 2,000 nautical miles nmi
Operations
- Environment
- open ocean, coastal waters, hydrographic survey
- Primary user
- navies, survey operators, ocean-science teams
- Role
- survey, ISR, subsea-system support
- Interaction model
- remote supervision, autonomous mission execution
- Mobility class
- uncrewed surface vessel
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Elistair and Exail productise Khronos integration with DriX USV — 2026-07-21
- Exail wins European navy contract for three light MCM systems — 2026-07-15
- Thales agrees to acquire Exail stake ahead of planned tender offer — 2026-07-06
- Safran enters exclusive negotiations to acquire Exail Technologies — 2026-06-26
- Exail launches rapidly deployable GNSS-denied navigation solution — 2026-06-12
- Exail wins 100-unit Phins Compact INS order for naval UUVs — 2025-07-30
- Exail wins European defense contract for five DriX H-8 USVs — 2025-06-30
- Exail selected for Indonesian Navy unmanned MCM system — 2025-06-24