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Poland buys stereo cameras for navy ROVs

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Poland's Gdynia naval port command named ENAMOR on 2 September for two sets of stereoscopic camera modules for V8 M500 remotely operated underwater vehicles, on a contract worth an estimated PLN2,017,362.66.

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Key takeaway

Poland upgraded serving underwater robots with domestically supplied stereo cameras on a two-month contract.

Komenda Portu Wojennego Gdynia, the Polish naval port command, named ENAMOR Sp. z o.o. for two sets of stereoscopic camera modules for V8 M500 remotely operated underwater vehicles, on a contract running from 2 September to 30 October with an estimated value of PLN2,017,362.66 1.

A stereoscopic pair gives an operator depth from two offset lenses, the way two eyes do. On a tethered vehicle where a pilot works a manipulator arm against a hull, a mine mooring or a pier structure, judging distance from a single flat image is the hard part of the job. The buy upgrades what the pilot sees rather than what the vehicle decides.

Warsaw bought a subsystem for a fleet already in service, on a contract measured in weeks, at a value that would not register beside a platform programme. Poland's naval robots keep working while the capability improves, and the supplier is a domestic electronics firm rather than a foreign prime. That last point has weight in the region: Britain stripped connectivity from Chinese-made cameras on Royal Marines uncrewed boats on 10 August after a supply-chain scare . Who builds the camera has become a defence question, not a purchasing detail.

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In plain English

A remotely operated underwater vehicle is controlled by people from a ship or shore. Stereoscopic cameras use two views to help an operator judge depth. Poland has chosen ENAMOR to supply those camera modules for two V8 M500 vehicles, rather than buying a whole fleet.

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