Role & capabilities
- Mine-survey observation
- Underwater surveillance research
- Primary domain
- Underwater
- System type
- Autonomous underwater vehicle
- Developer / manufacturer
- Hanwha Systems
- Origin / production countries
- South Korea
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Underwater-surveillance AUV; ASWUUV research programme
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Official product categories are used because a stable model designation is not established. Supplier reports successful Navy evaluation but also describes future fielding.
Hanwha's public naval portfolio separates a mine-survey AUV from its larger ASWUUV research programme. The former follows planned underwater routes and carries imaging equipment for examining objects near the coast and seabed. The latter is described as an open-architecture vehicle intended for longer-duration underwater observation. They are recorded together as a programme overview, without assigning one hull's specifications or maturity to the other.
For the survey AUV, Hanwha states that official Republic of Korea Navy evaluation included navigation at sea. The same product description says field deployment would follow completion of full development. That language supports successful testing, not an established delivered fleet. The public page does not disclose a stable model number or a reliable numeric data sheet for the identified vehicle.
Hanwha also describes docking technology as a separate military-civil research effort. A docking demonstrator is not evidence that every survey AUV already has that function. This entry therefore uses the supplier's own programme names and keeps dimensions, endurance and operator quantities unknown until programme-specific documentation connects them to a particular configuration.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration | Separate survey AUV and larger ASWUUV development programmes | Published baseline; configuration and mission conditions affect performance. Source |
| Hull / propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Dimensions | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Displacement / mass | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Endurance | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Operating depth | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Sensors | Survey AUV: optical camera, side-scan sonar and ultrasonic imaging | Supplier-listed survey configuration; not transferred to ASWUUV. Source |
| Communications / control | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Launch / deployment | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
Publication history
- — Published reference update.
Suggest a correction to this entry
Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.