Product profile
C-Worker 5
L3Harris C-Worker 5 is an autonomous surface vessel for persistent maritime survey, surveillance and sensor operations, using ASView autonomy with remote s...
Facts
- Company
- L3Harris Technologies
- Product type
- usv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- survey
- Website
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210305183538/https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/c-worker-5-asv
About C-Worker 5
L3Harris C-Worker 5 is an autonomous surface vessel for persistent maritime survey, surveillance and sensor operations, using ASView autonomy with remote supervision.
Market context
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Summary
Type: USV
Core: Autonomous surface vessel
Function: Persistent survey and maritime sensing
Audience: Maritime survey, defence and security operators
Specifications
- autonomy
- ASView autonomous control with remote supervision
- beam_cm
- 1.8 m beam cm
- communications
- COFDM IP mesh radio, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi
- draught_cm
- 0.85 m draught cm
- endurance_hours
- Up to 8 days at approximately 5 knots h
- fuel_capacity_l
- 770 litres diesel L
- length_cm
- 5.5 m length cm
- lightship_mass_kg
- 1,250 kg lightship without payload kg
- max_speed_knots
- Maximum speed 10 knots knots
- payload_capacity_kg
- 40 kg payload kg
- powertrain
- 57 hp inboard diesel with sail drive
- sea_state
- Operations up to and including sea state 3 sea state
- sensors
- Cameras and configurable maritime sensor payloads
Operations
- Environment
- marine_surface
- Primary user
- maritime survey teams, defence and security operators
- Role
- survey, surveillance
- Interaction model
- autonomous, remote_supervised
- Mobility class
- surface_vessel
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Green Wolf test combines L3Harris DiSCO with Shield AI Hivemind — 2026-07-16
- Australia awards A$6.2M across three AUKUS undersea-autonomy contracts — 2026-07-10
- L3Harris and Skydagger sign MOU for VAMPIRE drone-interceptor capability — 2026-06-16
- L3Harris scales fiber-optic tether systems for drones and subsea uncrewed platforms — 2026-05-19
- L3Harris fiber-optic torpedo cable advances from proof of design to manufacturing — 2025-09-09
- L3Harris IPLCS clears testing toward fiber-optic torpedo guidance production — 2025-02-03