SYOS has introduced the SU10 uncrewed underwater vehicle, extending its autonomous portfolio from air, land and sea into the subsurface domain, the company stated.
Announced at the Combined Naval Event in the United Kingdom, the SU10 is designed for mine countermeasures, critical subsea infrastructure protection and persistent surveillance. It can also support search, identification and route clearance, infrastructure inspection and intervention missions.
Sam Vye, CEO and founder of SYOS, said the SU10 “extends our portfolio undersea and strengthens SYOS as a provider of affordable interoperable uncrewed capability across land, sea, air and now subsurface,” adding that the vehicle can operate as a standalone system or as part of a connected multi-domain uncrewed system delivering “operational effect from air to seabed” through the company’s AAIMS autonomy software stack.
Vye said the SU10 “enables rapid, scalable operations across both defensive and offensive mission sets,” noting that when paired with uncrewed surface vessels and aerial systems it becomes “part of a persistent offshore node that can deploy, coordinate and adapt, while keeping people out of harm’s way.”
The SU10 operates to a depth of 500 metres and carries a modular 10kg payload accommodating inspection, intervention and ISR sensor fits. It delivers four hours of battery endurance or can operate indefinitely when connected to surface power via an ultra-slim fibre-optic tether. The vehicle can be launched, operated and recovered from shore, a crewed vessel or a SYOS uncrewed surface vessel, and is controllable remotely via satellite communications link from anywhere in the world.
The system runs on AAIMS, SYOS’s open architecture autonomy software, which enables operators to plan, task and re-task multiple vehicles across domains in real time. According to the company, live data is streamed and prioritised as missions evolve, with operator-centric filtering designed to reduce cognitive load by surfacing actionable insights rather than raw data.
Earlier variants of the SU10 have operational history in New Zealand’s offshore oil and gas sector and in commercial pipeline survey, inspection and intervention work. The vehicle is scheduled for deployment in late 2026 on planned Antarctic missions for long-range under-ice mapping as part of an international research partnership.
The announcement follows SYOS’s recent confirmation that its SA200 autonomous heavy-lift helicopter had cleared serial production following the completion of fully autonomous mission trials. With the SU10, the company now fields uncrewed systems across all four domains, connected through a single autonomy stack. SYOS said it continues to develop solutions for anti-submarine warfare, combining surface, subsurface and aerial systems to deliver persistent surveillance and extend tracking across wide maritime areas.
