UMEX 2020: Sea Otter and Sea Ox presented by CSI.

US Company CSI showcases their Sea Otter and Sea Ox Marine Crawler at UMEX 2020, taking place in Abu Dhabi from the 23 to 25th of February 2020.

(Picture source Army Recognition)

Sea Otter and Sea Ox are Marine Crawler that can be deployed either at sea or on land. Unburdened by weather, they operate on land and across the sea floor to collect necessary intelligence,prepare the beachhead for amphibious operations, and conduct littoral warfare. The scalable and high capacity payloads provide cross-environment monitoring, surveying and sampling capabilities that are underpinned by a blended GNSS and INS navigation solution allowing the system to be operated with confidence in both autonomous or tethered mode.

They have an operating depth of 300m under sea and can carry out a wide variety of missions such as intelligence gathering, mine detection and clearance, explosive beachhead breaching, offshore cache for gears, communication relay etc...

Both platform are tracked and powered by lithium-ion batteries that allows them to carry up to 100 days of continuous observation (static) both on land or at sea. The Marine Crawlers can be operated in 3 different modes which are - pre-programmed or autonomous, tethered or RF Buoy and can be used in a wide range of environments, including dunes, rivers, ponds, marshes.