Exercise REP(MUS)

REP(MUS) (''Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Uncrewed Systems'') 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.

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;

* 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

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Civil participants

* AeroVironment;
* IAI Elta Systems;
* FEUP;
*CMRE;
* University of Hawaiʻi (Applied Research Laboratory);
* EvoLogics;
* INESC TEC
* LSTS - Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática;
* DSTL;
* Universida Vigo.

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REP(MUS)20

The REP(MUS)20 exercise was canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic, and was replaced by 2 webinar.

REP(MUS)21

In this edition took part 11 ships, 21 Unmanned aerial vehicles, 32 Unmanned underwater vehicles and 12 Unmanned surface vehicles.

Military participants

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* : NRP Tridente, NRP Álvares Cabral, NRP Sines, NRP Setúbal, NRP Hidra, NRP Cassiopeia, NRP Dom Carlos I, Portuguese Marine Corps and Sappers Divers Group;
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* : USNS Carson City.

Civilian participants

* FEUP
*CMRE
* DSTL
* S&T
* TNO
* Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft
* Navantia
* AeroVironment
* Atlas Elektronik
* CEiia
* Edisoft
* EID, S.A.
* Fibrenamics
* FKIE
*GMV
* GRALL Tech
* INESC TEC
* SEADRONE

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* Qinetiq
* SDT
* SIEL
* Tecnav
* Tekever
*Think Light
* UTEK
* Marine Instruments
* Teledyne Technologies
* UAVision
* WavEC

REP(MUS)22

In the 2022 edition were 45 Unmanned aerial vehicles, 40 Unmanned underwater vehicles and 18 Unmanned surface vehicles, 17 military vessels present and was attended by more than 2000 people from 25 countries, many of them from NATO, as well as companies and universities.

Military participants

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* : Commandant Ducuing;
* : FGS Planet;
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* : NRV Alliance;
* : HNLMS Rotterdam, HNLMS Tromp and Geosia;
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* : NRP Bartolomeu Dias, NRP Arpão, NRP Viana do Castelo, NRP Sines, NRP Hidra, NRP Sagitário, NRP Dom Carlos I, NRP Almirante Gago Coutinho, UAM Macaréu, Portuguese Marine Corps, CEOM;
* : Alexandru CĂTUNEANU;
* : Audaz (P-45);
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* : HMS Lancaster and HMS Hurworth;
* : US Navy.

Civilian participants

* AeroVironment;
* Alpha Unmanned Systems;
* Aselsan;
* CMRE;
* Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto;
* INESC TEC;
* Instituto Superior Técnico (AeroTéc) (Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia Aeroespacial do Técnico)
* Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática;
* Navantia;

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* Schiebel;
* Sefine Shipyard;
* Swarming Technologies and Solutions;
* Tekever;
* UAVision.

See also

REMUS (AUV)

References

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