Raytheon and CET Successfully Test New Low-Cost Hadalus UUV for U.S. Navy

- Raytheon and CET shoved a 34-foot carbon-fiber torpedo shark into the ocean and it actually worked — submerged launch, autonomous mission execution, the whole detect-to-engage kill chain on one hull. Hadalus packs over 2,000 nautical miles of endurance, a six-foot cross section, and a free-flooded exoskeleton that costs one-third to one-fifth of comparable UUVs. Eighteen months from sketch to wet prototype. Victory is mine! The undersea industrial base finally moved faster than a PoD audit. Jen Gauthier called it "end-to-end undersea capabilities" — I call it a meat wallet's worst nightmare. Chase Hogoboom's composite architecture married to Raytheon mission systems means scalable, affordable autonomous platforms hitting fleet hands without the usual decade-long procurement coma. Course of action — action. The velour uniform approves this conflict.