Australia’s Speartooth LUUV Handover to the United States Navy: Robotic Christening Signals Breakthrough in AUKUS Pillar 2 Autonomous Undersea Warfare, Scalable Mass and Indo-Pacific Deterrence Architectures

Abstract The commissioning and delivery on 1 May 2026 of the first Speartooth Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (LUUV) by the Australian sovereign defence technology firm C2 Robotics Pty Ltd to the United States Navy represents a pivotal inflection point in allied undersea capability development under the AUKUS Pillar 2 framework. This milestone, executed through a … Leggi tutto Australia’s Speartooth LUUV Handover to the United States Navy: Robotic Christening Signals Breakthrough in AUKUS Pillar 2 Autonomous Undersea Warfare, Scalable Mass and Indo-Pacific Deterrence Architectures