UUV
Noun
Meaning
UUV (plural UUVs)
(military, US) Initialism of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle.
Examples
Gliders - a smaller UUV, likely to be what the Jiangsu fishermen found - can be deployed for "months" and are "cheap enough to be considered expendable".
ROV and UUV Small sonars have been fitted to Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) to allow their operation in murky conditions.
The Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System is an UUV for MCM purposes.
It is also said to be quite similar to a German UUV design.
The Kanyon UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle) as described and illustrated is a very, very large torpedo almost eighty feet long and five feet in diameter.