The Admiralty Shipyards of the USC have started an unusual order. The autonomous deep-sea vehicle "Sergey Bavilin" will be built there for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The deep-sea vehicle is named after Sergey Mikhailovich Bavilin, the chief designer of deep-sea technical equipment at the Malachite St. Petersburg Marine Engineering Bureau.
We all understand that the future of humanity and the entire planet depends directly on the study and development of the depths of the World Ocean, where all the main reserves of the Earth's resources are concentrated. The Admiralty Shipyards undertakes to create the vehicle, conduct all the necessary types of tests and transfer the deep-sea vehicle to the customer in a timely manner. There is no doubt that they will be performed with due quality and within the time frame established by the state contract
It is known that "Sergey Bavilin" is part of Project 18200, which has a wide range of tasks at depths — including extreme ones. These are depths of the World Ocean of more than 10 kilometers.
There is no information yet about other characteristics of the Sergey Bavilin vehicle, nor about the time frame in which it is supposed to be handed over to the customer. However, it is already known what it will be used for.
The deep-sea vehicle is designed to perform scientific research, historical and archaeological, emergency rescue operations and environmental monitoring of the World Ocean. The functionality of the vehicle includes the study of benthos and ichthyofauna, filming of production and popular science films.
Earlier it became known that engineers from St. Petersburg's "Malachite" have developed an artificial intelligence system called "Shrimp" for underwater robots. "Shrimp" will become the "eyes" of uninhabited deep-sea vehicles and will help them identify objects at kilometer depths where there is no sunlight, studying the World Ocean. It can be assumed that "Shrimp" will also work with the new deep-sea vehicle.
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