Teledyne Gavia has signed a multi-year Framework Agreement for the delivery and support of GAVIA Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) for the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF).
The Gavia vehicles will be dedicated to Mine Counter Measures (MCM) applications, while the award of the Framework Agreement follows an international open tender last year with FMV selecting the GAVIA AUV with the highest meritorious score against their technical requirements.
Teledyne Gavia offered its GAVIA AUV fitted with an EdgeTech 2205 side scan sonar and a Teledyne Flir Blackfly-S camera. Thanks to the GAVIA’s AUVs modularity, the Swedish Navy will also be able to add other payloads such as synthetic aperture sonar, magnetometers, or multibeams as mission requirements evolve.
The Framework Agreement will run over several years and has the option for extensions, and long-term in-country support will be provided by Teledyne Flir AB in Sweden.
“The Portable MCM AUV will be operated from various platforms to allow rapid mapping of the seabed and detection of various objects of interest,” said Johan Björck, Strategic Buyer at FMV.
Valentin Hanns, Senior Director of Sales – Marine Vehicles, EMEA, stated, “We are honored to count Sweden as a new user of the GAVIA AUV which is already in service for various applications with nine NATO navies.”
