Platforms
Kraken deliver technically advanced littoral, surface, and subsurface capabilities in order to meet current and future operational demands.
Platforms
Platform
- Length Overall
- 11.06m
- Beam Overall
- 2.54m
- Draft Overall
- 0.75m
- Max Displacement
- 6,000kg
- Powertrain
- Twin Diesel - Stern Drive
- Max Speed
- 50kt
- Range
- 1,000NM at 30kt
- Endurance
- 30 days - mission dependent
- Crew
- Autonomous
- Structure
- Composite
- Payload
- 1,500kg
- Operating Depth
- Surface
A high‑endurance, high‑payload Uncrewed Surface Vessel designed to deliver sustained capability at range. Modular in nature, K5 Kraken is rapidly re‑roled to support complex mission profiles including strike, anti‑submarine warfare, forward screening and multi‑domain operations.
Capabilities
- ASuW
- Maritime Strike
- ASuW
- Maritime forward screening
- ASW
- Strike and ASW - Towed arrays and multi-statics
- Littoral
- Infiltration and Extraction
- Littoral
- Forward force Support and Resupply
- Littoral
- Casualty Evacuation
- Littoral
- Strike
- C4ISR
- Conduct Littoral C4ISR
- Effects
- CEMA - EW Offensive and Defensive
- Effects
- Off board Kinetic - Non-Kinetic effects
- Effects
- C-UAS Detect and Defeat
- Effects
- One-way strike missions
- Attack
- Teamed multi-axis
Features
- ▸Reduced signature design
- ▸End-user configurable modular payload
- ▸Autonomous and advanced remote operation - PX4 operating system / Open interfaces to autonomy
- ▸Sensors - EO / Radar / Sonar (optional)
- ▸User defined C5ISR fit (optional)
- ▸Coded to MCA WBC3
Deploy
K5 KRAKEN is transportable and deployable by air, land and sea. Autonomous launch and recovery systems are reliable and rapid, ensuring platforms are on target as quickly as possible.
Robust and resilient, K5 KRAKEN retains the human-in-the-loop through seamless and assured connectivity, allowing operators to successfully execute a wide range of mission sets anywhere in the world and at any time.
DEPLOY is about getting capability to sea quickly, safely, and consistently.
Integrate
Integration is critical for K5 KRAKEN missions.
Open architecture ensures the platform integrates into command, control and communications structures and enables third-party payloads to be rapidly and easily integrated without significant redesign or reconfiguration of the platform.
Whether operating as part of a maritime task group at sea or supporting shore-based infrastructure, K5 KRAKEN integration enables it to play a critical role in a modern, hybrid force.
INTEGRATE underpins K5 KRAKEN flexibility and versatility.
Operate
As a low signature platform, K5 KRAKEN performs the full spectrum of mission profiles, operating autonomously but always with a human-on-the-loop.
Mission-led modularity supports both surface and subsurface mission sets, ranging from intelligence-gathering and target acquisition through to the delivery of kinetic and non-kinetic effects.
Even in the highest sea states and complex operating conditions, sensor fusion, data integrity and onboard processing is assured in near real-time. Operators benefit from optimal levels in situation awareness and compressed decision-making cycles.
OPERATE enables K5 KRAKEN to remain responsive, accountable and stable in real-world conditions, reducing personnel to unnecessary risk.
Adapt
K5 KRAKEN is rapidly re-roled at short notice to support fast-moving events at sea.
The platform’s modular and open architecture means payload bays can be very quickly changed in a matter of minutes, even when forward-deployed.
Operators benefit from the necessary levels in flexibility to respond to changes in mission parameters to successfully execute the mission. Interfaces are standardised, mounting systems are robust and integration pathways are streamlined.
ADAPT ensures K5 KRAKEN remains current in the face of emerging maritime challenges, protecting long-term investment and supporting evolving operational demands.
Scale
K5 KRAKEN is designed for scalable production and integration across the modern, hybrid fleet.
The platform is scaled up or down in line with emerging demand signals from the operator, backed by a dispersed yet robust manufacturing process and supply chain.
Once deployed, fleets of K5 KRAKEN platforms can operate on their own or as force multiplying and autonomous swarms, depending upon concepts of operation.
SCALE delivers flexibility at the edge and ensure operators benefit from cost effective solutions to support national security priorities.