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HUGIN Endurance

A large AUV designed for long autonomous survey deployments from shore or a support vessel.

Country / region
Norway
Programme status
Order / production commitment
Sources reviewed
20 Sept 2026
Order / production commitmentOrder / production commitment
Primary domain
Underwater
System type
Autonomous underwater vehicle
Developer / manufacturer
Kongsberg Discovery
Origin / production countries
Norway
Other names
No additional names recorded
Variants / configurations
Named configuration; see the evidence and specification notes
Operators / programme customers
Not established in the reviewed public sources

Evidence & current status

Factory acceptance is supplier-reported for the first production vehicle. The cited US contract concerns a prototype project and is not evidence of a fully operational US Navy fleet.

Role & capabilities

  • Long-duration seabed survey
  • Shore-to-shore autonomous missions
  • Configurable survey payload

Specifications in context

Configuration
Large untethered AUV

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Hull / propulsion
Battery-electric, pressure-tolerant energy modules

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Dimensions
10 m long; 1.2 m diameter

Nominal data-sheet configuration; other programme announcements describe different overall lengths.

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Displacement / mass
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.

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Payload
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.

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Endurance
Up to 15 days

Full complement of batteries; customer payload changes available energy.

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Range
Up to 2,200 km / 1,200 nautical miles

Manufacturer maximum for full-battery configuration.

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Speed
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.

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Operating depth
6,000 m

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Sensors
Synthetic-aperture sonar, multibeam and mission-dependent survey instruments

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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Communications / control
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.

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Launch / deployment
Shore-based or ship-based launch and recovery

Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.

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