Exercise REP(MUS)
Portuguese NRP Setúbal during REP(MUS) 2021 exercise.
REP(MUS) is an annual military exercise organized and hosted by the Portuguese Navy and NATO with the participation of forces from foreign military forces, universities and tech companies. The exercise has the objective of testing different types of unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned surface vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles. Today it is the largest UAV testing exercise, with the participation of several NATO countries.[1][2]
Objectives[]
REP(MUS) allows nations to pool their resources, talent and ingenuity to create better, more flexible and more interoperable maritime unmanned vehicles and systems;[3]
- Demonstration of the web-based tool Ripples' enhanced capabilities for marine situational awareness and multi-domain unmanned vehicle missions;
- Participation in cooperative mine-warfare missions to be performed by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles from several nations;
- Characterization of acoustic and magnetic signatures of the LAUVs in the open ocean;
- Demonstration of a submarine's response to an emergency distress call;
- Underwater acoustic networking communications with fixed and mobile nodes;
- Radio communication exchanges between the LUME small satellite and Unmanned Air Systems;
- Demonstration of UAV capabilities in amphibious landing;
- Demonstration of multi-robot area coverage under varying currents.
REP(MUS)19[]
Military participants[4][]
Civil participants[3][]
- AeroVironment;[7]
- IAI Elta Systems;[8]
- FEUP;
- University of Hawaiʻi (Applied Research Laboratory);
- EvoLogics;
- INESC TEC[9]
- LSTS - Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática;[10]
- DSTL;[11]
- Universida Vigo.
REP(MUS)20[]
The REP(MUS)20 exercise was canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic, and was replaced by 2 webinar.[12]
REP(MUS)21[]
In this edition took part 11 ships, 21 Unmanned aerial vehicles, 32 Unmanned underwater vehicles and 12 Unmanned surface vehicles.[13]
Military participants[14][]
Portugal:[15]
United States
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
- Geosia[17]
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
France
Greece
Norway
Poland
Romania
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
Civilian participants[]
- FEUP
- DSTL
- S&T
- TNO
- Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft
- Navantia[18]
- AeroVironment
- Atlas Elektronik[19]
- CEiia[20]
- Edisoft[21]
- EID, S.A.[19]
- Fibrenamics
- FKIE[19]
- GMV
- GRALL Tech
- INESC TEC
- SEADRONE[22]
- OceanScan[23]
- Qinetiq
- SDT
- SIEL
- Tecnav
- Tekever[24]
- Think Light[19]
- UTEK[25]
- Marine Instruments[26]
- Teledyne Technologies
- Uavision[27]
- WavEC
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS)" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Dias, Paulo Sousa; Costa, Maria; Pinto, José; Lima, Keila; Venâncio, Luís; Aguiar, Miguel; Sousa, João Borges de (2021-04-29). "Large Scale Unmanned Vehicles Oceanic Exercise REP(MUS)19 Field Report". doi:10.36227/techrxiv.14500872.v1.
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- ^ "Counter Drone System Repels Drone Attack On A Portuguese Port At REP(MUS)19 NATO - Quadcopter News". 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
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- ^ "USS Porter and EOMDU 8 participate in exercise REP (MUS) 2019". U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa / U.S. 6th Fleet. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ^ Atherton, Kelsey (2019-09-26). "Over a dozen drones raided a beach in Portugal". C4ISRNet. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ Desk, News (2019-10-25). "Counter Drone System Repels Drone Attack on a Portuguese Port at REP(MUS)19 NATO Exercise". Defense Update. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "Robótica do INESC TEC participa em exercício da NATO". BIP (in European Portuguese). 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "LSTS FEUP on LinkedIn: REP(MUS)21 - Mine Counter Measure". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ Banks, Martin. "NATO just got together in Portugal to test its drones at sea, underwater, and in the air". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "REP(MUS) 2020 - Webinar | Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática". lsts.fe.up.pt. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ^ "REP(MUS)21". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "USNS Carson City REP(MUS)21". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
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- ^ "Experimentação e inovação em destaque". Marinha (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "EDISOFT - DEFENCE & AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES on LinkedIn: #C4SEA #EDISOFT #NATO". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ Defensa.com (2021-09-21). "Los planes de la Armada española para dotarse de medios no tripulados navales-noticia defensa.com - Noticias Defensa España". Defensa.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "About | Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática". lsts.fe.up.pt. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "TEKEVER on LinkedIn: #TEKEVER #REP". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "UTEK REP(MUS)21". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Marine Instruments REP(MUS)21". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Uavision REP(MUS)21". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
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