The German shipyard group NVL and the British tech company Kraken will work together as part of a joint venture in the future. While NVL specializes in shipbuilding, the focus of the Kraken Technology Group is the development of powerful and cost -effective unmanned sea systems. According to a press release, the reason for this merger is the stronger need for a network of manned and unmanned systems.
In the future, NVL can offer complete solutions that consist of manned naval units and autonomous, individually configurable operating systems – provided by the joint venture. First, the production of smaller units is planned, but this can also be expanded to include larger unmanned boats. Production at the NVL location Blohm+Voss in Hamburg is scheduled to start this year. As a supplement to the existing capacities in England, both the German and the pan -European market can be equipped faster.
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“The joint venture with octopus offers us the opportunity to react quickly to the current requirements of our customers and to provide market -available autonomous systems quickly and in large numbers,” emphasized Tim Wagner, CEO of the NVL. “At the same time, we create an essential prerequisite for getting other innovative solutions in this area. This includes, for example, our design draft for the drone mother ship NTV130 as the successor to the six tender of the Elbe class of the German Navy.”
Some time ago the NVL shares in the Kraken Technology Group. This includes an option to increase these shares in the fourth quarter of the year. As was also stated in the broadcast, both companies will invest significantly in the establishment of the joint venture.
“Cooperation with the NVL enables exponential scaling of production and supply chain. This way we can encounter the growing threats on our seas through the use of numerous powerful and multifunctional platforms,” says CRASE, CEO of Kraken Technology Group. He is certain: “NVL is undoubtedly the gold standard in naval shipbuilding. The possibility of being able to use this know-how, further developing together and converting it on smaller, unmanned platforms will contribute to the decisive and urgently needed change in the European Maritime Defense Industry.”
