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Strap into a working diver-navigation console that blends a wrist Doppler log with a fibre-optic gyro to guide swimmers through black, silt-choked water with no surfacing for a fix. A live pool-tank plot lets you steer t...
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Every location at Innovation Expo 2027 - Demo Hall, grouped by category. Tap any name to see it on the map above.
Strap into a working diver-navigation console that blends a wrist Doppler log with a fibre-optic gyro to guide swimmers through black, silt-choked water with no surfacing for a fix. A live pool-tank plot lets you steer t...
Lift a sandwich panel and marvel at how little it weighs for its stiffness. Adaptiv Composites presents the closed-cell foam and balsa cores that stiffen a hull skin, shave tonnes off displacement and soak up the hammer...
The second Adaptiv stand asks what composites do under pressure: filament-wound cylinders and sonar-transparent domes. Cross-sections reveal how wound carbon shrugs off depth while letting sound and radio energy pass cle...
Take the operator's seat at Apex Defence and run a simulated engagement from first detection to salvo. A naval gun-mount mock-up is wired to the fire-control desk that feeds it targets, showing how sensors, ballistics an...
Where salt spray freezes on contact and ordinary electronics fail, Arctek's ice-hardened kit keeps working. Heated sensor housings and pack-ice-rated hull fittings fill the stand, each built for craft pushing deep into t...
Keeping a warship at sea is a logistics craft, and Beacon Industries lays out the whole picture: dockside overhaul planning, spares pipelines and refit scheduling. Its deck-by-deck model walks you through a full mid-life...
The curved transducer face of a hull-mounted sonar is cut away at C01 so you can trace how each element beam-forms into a listening cone. An operator replays real contact tracks and shows how a trained ear reads a bearin...
Trailing nearly a kilometre astern, C05's slim acoustic tail hears threats far beyond a ship's own noise. A winch model and a sectioned hydrophone streamer show how the array is paid out, stabilised and reeled home again...
Suspended mid-cabin with its fins live, the torpedo-shaped AUV at C25 plans its own lawn-mower search of the seabed. Screens track a simulated survey as the vehicle decides its turns, holds depth and logs contacts with n...
Under studio lights at C26, a remotely operated disposal vehicle grips an inert practice mine in its claw. Follow the hunt-classify-neutralise sequence on the wall display and learn why the final few metres of the approa...
Turning slowly at C28, a cutaway podded thruster shows its counter-rotating blades and steering azimuth working as one. Engineers talk through wringing more thrust from a quieter drive that swivels to point push wherever...
Feel the torque through the guard rail at C50, where a permanent-magnet motor and its power-electronics cabinet run a live load demo. The pitch is all-electric propulsion that strips vibration and acoustic signature out...
Wired to a live load bank that dims and surges on command, C50-2's rack of maritime-grade lithium cells shows how a big battery soaks up pulse loads, trims fuel burn and lets the engines fall silent while the ship idles...
Lit up at C51 is a miniature medium-voltage DC ring main, rerouting current around a simulated battle-damage fault. Watch the breakers trip and the load re-path in milliseconds to keep the weapons bus alive when a compar...
Faster than the eye can follow, the software-defined radio at C70 hops frequencies to duck a wall of jamming. The spectrum display tells the tale: a hostile noise bar chasing a signal that has already skipped elsewhere a...
Radio dies underwater, so C71 sends orders as acoustic packets across a tank to a submerged node while a diver-held unit pings its reply. See how a slow, patient channel still carries a message to depths no antenna could...
Sit at the console at C80 as a rotating planar-array antenna sweeps a plot seeded with sea-skimming targets. The interest lies in the software that peels a genuine contact out of cluttered wave returns before it slips in...
Fingerprinting every incoming emission, the receiver bank at C81 works beside a decoy-launcher model showing the counter-move. A timeline replays a missile seeker coaxed off target by a blossoming cloud of chaff and well...
Spinning on a motion table at C90 is a ring-laser gyro block that proves a ship can hold its position with every antenna switched off. A drift plot shows how little the solution wanders across a simulated day at sea, ent...
In a pressure tank at C91, a wet-mateable plug is joined and parted underwater with the power still flowing. Handle a sectioned deep-ocean cable and count the layers of armour, screening and insulation that survive crush...
Pull up a chair between briefings: the barista bar pours coffee all day, with cold drinks, pastries and a hot lunch from midday to two. It is the hall's natural meeting point, as good for a quiet catch-up as for sealing...
Coils of armoured umbilical hang from the Coral Cabling rig like deep-sea rope, each bundling power, fibre and strength into one skin. The display follows the electro-optical tether that feeds a remote vehicle its energy...
D01 turns the seabed into a map, its multibeam echo sounder fanning hundreds of beams to chart depth in a single pass. A survey builds on screen in false colour, ridges and wrecks rising out of flat blue as the boat trac...
When a torpedo is already in the water, D80 has the answer: acoustic decoys that lure the weapon off the ship. A launcher model and a sound demo show how a countermeasure mimics a hull's echo and noise, buying the second...
Up periscope, but no eye is at the glass. D85 shows a non-penetrating optronic mast that pipes stabilised day, low-light and thermal video to a screen below. Swivel the sensor head and watch it hold a horizon lock throug...
How does a conventional submarine stay under for weeks without surfacing? D90 answers with fuel-cell air-independent power, its stacks turning stored hydrogen and oxygen into silent current that keeps a boat deep, charge...
Bringing a boat home in a heaving swell is where missions are won or lost. D95 runs a scale cradle-and-crane rig through its motion-compensated cycle, snatching a bobbing craft and hauling it aboard without a cracked hul...
On the big screen a swarm of simulated gliders plots its own search box, re-routing around a fresh contact with nobody touching a key. Drift Systems shows the autonomy brain that lets an uncrewed vehicle decide, adapt an...
E80 keeps a task group talking over the horizon, its stabilised satellite terminal holding a lock on a spacecraft while the deck pitches beneath. A cutaway antenna and live link readout show how the beam stays pointed th...
Dropped by the dozen from ship or aircraft, the sonobuoys at E90 unreel a hydrophone beneath the waves and radio what they hear back to base. Handle a sectioned canister and see how a throwaway sensor becomes a listening...
Two acoustic modems chirp across a tank of water at EchoWave, trading data as clicking pulses no cable could carry. The same signals fix a diver's position and let seabed vehicles report to the surface, turning the ocean...
F84 carries the combat diver rather than guides him, its swimmer delivery vehicle towing a team and their kit silently to the target. Take the controls of the sectioned hull to see how the diver rides trimmed out, shelte...
Every warship's machinery has a nerve centre, and F90 is it: an integrated platform-management console watching engines, pumps and power from one screen. Trip a simulated fault and see the system isolate it, reroute and...
Nosing around a tabletop harbour, the model uncrewed surface vessel at F95 hugs the buoys and dodges traffic on its own. The draw is the sensors and collision-avoidance logic that let a robot boat patrol for days while i...
Falcon Defence wires a submarine's attack together, threading sonar, torpedo tubes and the fire-control table into a single picture. A scenario wall replays a stalk from first faint contact to the moment a weapon is set...
Every connector on Glacier Marine's wall has done time on the seabed, and you are invited to mate and de-mate a wet-pluggable unit yourself. The display traces how the waterproof housings survive pressure, salt and hundr...
GreenGrid Energy pitches naval power that runs quiet and clean: a hybrid plant blending generators, batteries and an energy-management brain that decides what feeds the bus. Watch it drop to silent running and claw back...
Not every threat arrives by submarine, and H40 listens for the ones that swim: a diver-detection sonar ringing a harbour with sound to flag an intruder's faint echo. The console replays a lone swimmer being tracked in as...
H45 is the submarine's early-warning ear, an intercept receiver that catches a hostile sonar the instant it pings and gauges the range before the echo returns. A waterfall display flares as each transmission is caught, c...
Rather than hunt mines one by one, H48 sweeps them, towing sleds that fake the magnetic and acoustic signature of a ship to trigger the weapon in empty water. A model rig shows the coils and sound sources dragged safely...
Wings, not propellers, move the glider at H49, which sips barely any power as it porpoises through the deep for months at a stretch. A buoyancy-engine cutaway shows how shifting a little oil turns a change of depth into...
An unmanned submarine need never surface if it can plug in on the seabed, and H50 shows the docking station that makes it possible. Nose a model AUV onto the cone and watch it latch, recharge and offload its data before...
Behind every sensor and screen runs a data backbone, and H54 lays it bare: a rack of fibre switches and gateways moving tactical traffic round a warship at speed. A live rig lights up as data re-routes instantly around a...
Satellite navigation can be jammed or faked, so H58 shows the kit that keeps a fix honest: an anti-spoof GNSS receiver paired with an atomic clock steady enough to coast through an outage. A live plot flags a spoofed sig...
Curved sonar-transparent bow panels and hefty sample coupons fill H60, and you are meant to pick them up and feel the weight that is not there. The team walks through a layup that resists corrosion, damps noise and cuts...
Scattered blips become one truth at Harbinger, whose combat-management system fuses sonar, radar and electro-optics into one track. Settle into the operator's seat for a multi-threat run and watch the clutter resolve int...
Slide a steel object past the bench and the needle twitches. Helix Instruments builds fluxgate magnetometers keen enough to catch the faint iron signature of a submarine or a buried mine, and its shielded demo shows that...
A stabilised gimbal camera at Hephaestus Sensors tracks a moving target clean across the hall, never losing its lock. The craft on show is electro-optical and infrared sighting that keeps a steady eye through ship roll,...
Infiniti Group listens to the enemy's own radios, its signals-intelligence suite intercepting transmissions and taking a bearing on whoever is talking. A live display fingerprints a distant emitter and swings a direction...
Inform Vision hands the watchkeeper a wall of tactical displays where you can drag contacts, layer charts and replay an incident minute by minute. The pitch is command-centre software that turns a flood of raw sensor dat...
Headline talks land on the Keynote Stage, where today's address on the future undersea battlespace pulls in programme directors and chief engineers. Take a seat early for the panel on crewed-uncrewed teaming that follows...
One backlit lightbox anchors the hall at Lumix, cycling this year's headline innovations in crisp, oversized detail. Pause here to catch, one glowing frame at a time, the images that sum up where undersea defence is head...
Layer by layer, a marine-grade bracket grows on Matrix 3D's metal printer, beside finished propeller and manifold parts. The message is spares on demand: printing a component at sea keeps a deployed ship moving instead o...
Snap a reconnaissance module out and a sensor package in within minutes: Module Pro builds unmanned craft as swappable payload bays you reconfigure by hand. The stand invites you to rebuild the mission on the spot and se...
Sharp enough to read the rivets on a wreck, Nautica Subsea's imaging sonar pairs with an acoustic grid that pins a diver or ROV to the metre. Watch a live tank scan resolve into a crisp seabed picture on the big screen a...
Home turf for the sector's newest names, this cluster of compact pods gives first-time exhibitors and early-stage start-ups their debut. Expect raw prototypes, pitch corners and the odd piece of technology that has never...
Stand at the helm of Oasis Maritime, whose integrated bridge fuses chart, radar and tactical picture onto one glass console. Watch tracks hand cleanly between watchkeepers as the bridge mock-up runs a busy coastal passag...
Shock, vibration and salt spray kill a cable run, and Orbis Components builds interconnects to defy them. Handle ruggedised backshells and circular connectors pulled from mission-critical racks, and watch a shaker rig pr...
The Italian national pavilion gathers shipbuilders, sensor houses and systems integrators under one banner. Wander the walkway between member stands to see how the country's maritime-defence supply chain fits together, f...
Firms from across the country gather at the Australian national pavilion, spanning autonomy, sensors and shipbuilding under one roof. Stop by for a flat white and a map of who does what along the southern-hemisphere supp...
Riftwave Communications hides the fact you are transmitting at all, its low-probability-of-intercept waveform spread so thin an eavesdropper hears only sea noise. A bench decodes the buried link live while the spectrum d...
Rover Industries brings the muscle: a sectioned marine gas turbine beside a high-speed diesel, the prime movers that spin a warship's shafts and generators. Trace the airflow through the turbine and see where fuel become...
Seacrest Tech strips a full-scale torpedo tube back to its water-ram ejection gear, showing how a weapon is punched clear of the hull. Handling rails and secure data links round out a display built around getting ordnanc...
A quiet spot to take the weight off between briefings, with open seating, power sockets and coffee within reach. Drop into a chair to compare notes, fix a follow-up meeting or simply let the busy hall wash past for ten m...
Silex Sensing shrinks the gyroscope to a grain of silicon, its cabinet of MEMS chips holding the tiny resonators that sense every twitch of motion. A tilting rig proves the same devices steady a camera and hold navigatio...
Skyline Defence gives its stand to naval radar and electronic warfare, a rotating AESA panel sweeping air and surface threats onto the screens. Step into the EW booth to try classifying an incoming emitter and jamming it...
The show's main forum opens with the keynote 'The Autonomous Ocean', on how uncrewed systems are rewriting undersea warfare. Programme leaders and chief engineers trade views on the panels that follow through the day, so...
Deeper technical sessions run here, from 'Quiet by Design' on acoustic stealth to hands-on briefings on sensor fusion. Speakers rotate all day, so check the board for what is next and pull up a chair while the panel gath...
Business and the supply chain take Stage 3, with sessions such as 'From Lab to Fleet' on getting new kit into service fast. Start-ups pitch, primes answer and procurement teams take the floor between the scheduled talks.
Stingray Marine kits out the working diver, pairing a handheld imaging sonar with a search display for zero-visibility jobs. Slip on the harness and follow a plotted route across a simulated seabed, picking targets out o...
Stratos Systems machines the unglamorous parts that must not fail: sealed housings and close-tolerance valves shrugging off salt, shock and pressure. Handle coupons fresh from a corrosion chamber and find where each one...
Synapse Marine takes the whole-ship view, its design model showing how sensors, weapons and machinery knit into a single naval hull. Through-life planners walk you from the first concept sketch to decades of keeping that...
Tessera specialises in what hides beneath the surface, ranging hull sonar alongside mine-countermeasure and seabed-surveillance kit. Step into the darkened theatre to watch an acoustic search pick a mine-like object out...
TideMark Shipbuilding brings the yard indoors, a scale hull under construction and modular build-blocks you can slot together yourself. Naval architects talk through how a submarine or surface combatant grows from laid k...
Rap your knuckles on a sectioned dome at Tidewater Tech and feel how thin the layup really is. The firm moulds composite radomes and panels that stay radar-transparent yet tough, keeping the antennas behind them seeing c...
Built to shrug off shock, salt and vibration, Vertex Engineering's open-architecture mission computers sit at the heart of the display. Sealed enclosures and rugged VPX processing boards keep combat software running deep...
o200 spreads the sonar along the hull's flanks, a conformal array hugging the plating to hear low and quiet down the ship's whole length. A sectioned panel shows the tiled sensors, and a display turns their faint returns...
Grab the master controls at o203 and close a work-class ROV's manipulator around a valve on the bench. The stand shows the arms, torque tools and cutters that let a piloted robot turn, bolt and repair on the seabed where...