新西兰基督城 — 澳大利亚海军正加倍押注无人系统，采用“蓝瓶”无人水面艇、“幽灵鲨”和“矛齿鲨”超大型自主水下航行器等平台。
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Australia’s Navy is doubling down on unmanned systems as it adopts platforms like the Bluebottle unmanned surface vessel and Ghost Shark and Speartooth extra-large autonomous underwater vehicles.
由Ocius Technology公司生产的“蓝瓶”无人水面艇（简称USV），主要由风能、波浪能和太阳能驱动，可提供持续数周的海上监视。
The Bluebottle unmanned surface vessel – or USV for short – produced by Ocius Technology, is powered primarily by wind, wave and sun to give persistent, at-sea surveillance for weeks at a time.
国防工业部长帕特·康罗伊曾表示：“我以前说过，我希望潜在对手明白，当他们看到一艘Ocius‘蓝瓶’USV时，这就是让他们滚出我们海洋的信号。”澳大利亚拥有世界第三大专属经济区，仅次于法国和美国。
“I’ve said before that I want potential adversaries to understand that, when they see an Ocius Bluebottle USV, it’s a signal to get out of our ocean,” Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy has said. Australia possesses the world’s third-largest exclusive economic zone, behind only those of France and the United States.
除了执行监视任务，“蓝瓶”自主艇还获得了一项新工具，帮助其在澳大利亚周边猎杀敌方潜艇：拖曳在“蓝瓶”身后的BlueSentry细缆光纤声呐。
As well as conducting surveillance, the autonomous Bluebottle has been given a new tool to help it hunt enemy submarines on Australia’s periphery: the BlueSentry thin-line, fiber-optic sonar towed behind the Bluebottle.
事实上，泰雷兹澳大利亚公司于2026年10月下旬开设了BlueSentry声呐装配线。这座耗资数百万澳元的设施——由该公司与澳大利亚政府共同出资——位于悉尼西部。
In fact, Thales Australia opened an assembly line for the BlueSentry sonar in late October 2026. This multimillion-dollar facility – jointly funded by the company and the Australian government – is located in western Sydney.
除BlueSentry外，该综合体还将为潜艇和军舰设计、制造、集成和维护拖曳阵列声呐。泰雷兹将为澳大利亚即将建造的六艘“猎人”级护卫舰生产拖曳阵列声呐，这些护卫舰由BAE Systems Australia公司建造。
As well as the BlueSentry, the complex will design, make, integrate and sustain towed-array sonars for submarines and warships. Thales will produce towed-array sonars for Australia’s six incoming Hunter-class frigates being constructed by BAE Systems Australia.
此外，该工厂还将维护澳大利亚六艘“柯林斯”级柴电潜艇上现有的泰雷兹声呐。
Furthermore, the plant will sustain existing Thales sonars on Australia’s six Collins-class diesel-electric submarines.
泰雷兹澳大利亚公司在一份声明中表示：“新设施通过确保新一代拖曳阵列声呐系统的端到端主权制造能力和产能，增强了这种澳大利亚制造的威慑力，这些系统支持潜艇和水面战斗舰，以及服务于澳大利亚和出口市场的无人海上系统用细缆拖曳阵列。”
“The new facility boosts this Australian-made deterrence by ensuring end-to-end sovereign manufacturing capability and capacity for next-generation, towed-array sonar systems that support submarines and surface combatants, and thin-line towed arrays for uncrewed maritime systems serving both Australian and export markets,” Thales Australia said in a statement.
在“海洋1200计划”下，澳大利亚皇家海军于今年3月订购了40艘“蓝瓶”无人水面艇，合同价值1.76亿澳元（约合1.24亿美元）；与此同时，澳大利亚边境指挥部已运营另外15艘“蓝瓶”，用于监控澳大利亚北部水域。
Under Project Sea 1200, the Royal Australian Navy ordered 40 Bluebottle USVs for A$176 million (US$124 million) in March this year, while the country’s Border Command already operates 15 other Bluebottles to monitor waters north of Australia.
随着对“蓝瓶”需求的扩大，Ocius公司于2026年10月16日在悉尼启用了一个新的工程、生产和维护中心。该中心设有一个全天候全球运营中心，用于监控穿梭于世界各大洋的“蓝瓶”无人艇。
With demand for Bluebottles expanding, Ocius opened a new engineering, production and maintenance hub for the USVs in Sydney on Oct. 16, 2026. It incorporates a 24/7 global operations center to monitor Bluebottles crisscrossing the world’s oceans.
一周前，Ocius科技公司在澳大利亚境外开设了首个维护基地。该设施位于新西兰奥克兰，将为新西兰海军于2025年4月采购的两艘“蓝瓶”提供维护服务。
A week earlier, Ocius Technology opened its first maintenance base outside Australia. That facility is located in Auckland, New Zealand, and it will service two Bluebottles acquired by New Zealand’s navy in April 2025.
上个月，澳大利亚还宣布向斐济捐赠“蓝瓶”无人艇。首批艇只预计将于2027年初抵达，将协助打击毒品走私、非法捕捞和有组织犯罪。
Last month, Australia also announced it was donating Bluebottles to Fiji. The first units should arrive there in early 2027, and they will help combat drug smuggling, illegal fishing and organized crime.
澳大利亚海军参谋长、海军中将马特·巴克利表示：“就我们的平台本身而言，当然必须继续发展，而我们可以安装在‘幽灵鲨’、‘矛齿鲨’、‘蓝瓶’等无人艇上的模块化任务载荷的演进，为我们创造了巨大的灵活性，使我们能够将这些系统适应未来的任务和未来的需求。”
Australian Navy Chief Vice Adm. Matt Buckley said: “In terms of our platforms themselves, of course they must continue to evolve, and the evolution of modular payloads that we can fit to uncrewed vessels like the Ghost Shark, like the Speartooth, like the Bluebottle creates enormous flexibility for us and allows us to adapt these systems to future missions and future requirements.”