Lockheed Martin “Lamprey” Multi-Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (MMAUV) and the Emerging Hybrid Sea-Denial Threat Envelope in Contested Maritime Theaters

Abstract The public rollout of LampreyMMAUV by Lockheed Martin marks a salient inflection in how undersea autonomy is being positioned for operational sea denial, covert assured access, and distributed effects—especially in contested littorals and chokepoint geometries where classical anti-submarine warfare (ASW) search problems already favor the defender through physics, clutter, and attribution friction. In open … Leggi tutto Lockheed Martin “Lamprey” Multi-Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (MMAUV) and the Emerging Hybrid Sea-Denial Threat Envelope in Contested Maritime Theaters