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
- 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.
Source ↗ - Hull / propulsion
- Battery-electric, pressure-tolerant energy modules
Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.
Source ↗ - Dimensions
- 10 m long; 1.2 m diameter
Nominal data-sheet configuration; other programme announcements describe different overall lengths.
Source ↗ - Displacement / mass
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Payload
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Endurance
- Up to 15 days
Full complement of batteries; customer payload changes available energy.
Source ↗ - Range
- Up to 2,200 km / 1,200 nautical miles
Manufacturer maximum for full-battery configuration.
Source ↗ - Speed
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Operating depth
- 6,000 m
Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.
Source ↗ - Sensors
- Synthetic-aperture sonar, multibeam and mission-dependent survey instruments
Published specification for the cited configuration; payload, environment and speed affect performance.
Source ↗ - Communications / control
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - 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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