The REMUS AUV, helped clear the Iraqi port Umm Qasr in 2003. This was the first successful wartime deployment of an autonomous underwater vehicle. Remus AUV's are still in operationis throughout the world. Video courtesy of AUVfest 2008: Partnership Runs Deep, Navy/NOAA, OceanExplorer.noaa.gov

 

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