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72 Hour Single Hub Deployment
Mission Range: 1000nm
Loitering at 1,000nm from the Harbor Gate AO, Sea Tentacle receives urgent tasking:
800nm sprint at 35 knots (23 hrs)
Single launch event: Predator with external docking sled (1 hr)
200nm transit at 5 knots (40 hrs)
Sensor deployment vehicle max range of 5nm at 5 knots (2 hrs)
LWV’s launch and dock with sled (2 hrs)
Power up, system optimization and self test, communications check-in (4 hrs)
We have developed two potential deployment sequences, one for the 72 hour single hub mission and one for the full payload 10 day mission.  Events proceed from top to bottom on the y-axis while the hours accumulate on the x axis.

The purple and green demonstrate the tradeoffs between capabilities and requirements, balancing the Sea Tentacles sprint range, the Sea Predators fully loaded delivery range, and maximizing our covert standoff range.