Solution dossier / Towed sonar system

KATFISH Towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar

An actively stabilized towed synthetic-aperture sonar system for high-resolution seabed imaging, bathymetry, and subsea-object detection.

Owned or delivered by Kraken Robotics

Evidence status: Official product source reviewed
Last reviewed: September 11, 2026
Public sources: 1
Source coverage: Solution-specific
Domains: Maritime / C4ISR

Scope boundary: Official product claims are source reviewed. Independent performance verification, accepted-service status, delivery availability, export classification, and program participation are not established.

Functional record

What it enables.

Acquire high-resolution seabed imagery and bathymetry across a wide survey area from a stabilized towbody, with real-time and post-processed data products for underwater survey and object detection.

Company or source record

Core features

Actively stabilized synthetic-aperture sonar towbody with company-described autopilot control.
Real-time SAS imagery, 3D bathymetry, and dynamically focused sidescan data products.
Launch-and-recovery configurations described for larger uncrewed surface vessels and ISO20-deck vessels.

Documented applications

Defence and security uses

Mine-countermeasure survey
Critical underwater infrastructure inspection
Route survey and seabed characterization

Configuration-level evidence

Published technical claims

Standard survey speed: 4–10 knots; Kraken notes faster configurations may be available.
Published survey envelope: 5–30 m altitude at depths to 300 m, with ranges up to 200 m per side.
Published data products: 3 cm real-time SAS imagery, 25 cm 3D bathymetry, and 2 cm post-processed SAS imagery.
Published area coverage: Up to 3.5 km² per hour.

Anvil North MINT assessment

Where this solution may fit.

Every connection is an analytical lead. It is not evidence of procurement direction, program participation, eligibility, endorsement, or buyer interest.

Analytical lead

Canadian Patrol Submarine Project

Its underwater survey and object-detection functions are relevant to undersea-awareness and route-survey questions around the future fleet, but no disclosed CPSP supplier role is established.

This is an Anvil North capability-to-requirement assessment. It does not establish a program role, buyer interest, eligibility, or selection.

Industrial and market readiness

What sits behind the offering.

This is the layer a conventional product directory usually omits: the work performed in Canada, the integration dependencies, and the route through export and procurement controls.

Anvil North assessment

Canadian industrial role

The offering creates a potential Canadian sonar-system and integration role. This record does not yet establish configuration-specific Canadian production workshare, capacity, or sustainment responsibility.

Conditions to verify

Integration and sustainment

Host-vessel towing, launch-and-recovery, deck-space, and sea-state requirements.
Power, data transport, processing, storage, and operator-workflow interfaces.
Configuration-specific environmental qualification, training, support, and spares.

Not established

Export-market readiness

Canadian and destination-market classifications, controlled-technology treatment, permits, end-use restrictions, and technical-data access require transaction-specific confirmation.

Open the U.S. market corridor

Prepare the conversation

Questions before treating this as a pursuit.

These questions turn public product language into a configuration, evidence, workshare, and access conversation.

01
Which KATFISH configuration and data products are available for the intended host vessel and mission?
02
What independently reviewable qualification, customer acceptance, and operating evidence applies to that configuration?
03
Which launch-and-recovery, power, processing, storage, training, and support elements sit inside the proposed scope?
04
What Canadian workshare and export-control conditions apply to the complete delivered configuration?

Evidence limits

What still needs verification.

The reviewed source does not establish a technology-readiness level, manufacturing-readiness level, or configuration-specific accepted-service status.
KATFISH appears in Kraken’s current product catalogue. The reviewed record does not establish delivery slots, lead time, price, or configuration availability.
Canadian and destination-market classifications, controlled-technology treatment, permits, end-use restrictions, and technical-data access require transaction-specific confirmation.

Evidence