JFD Stealth Multi-Role rebreather achieves CE certification

Since its unveiling in 2025, development activity and operational testing has been undertaken to validate the system’s performance across a broad range of dive conditions and it is now ready for release to the market.

“Modern military diving operations place increasing demands on life support systems, particularly during prolonged or complex missions where reliability and adaptability are critical,” said JFD head of defence diving military products, Peter Laughton.

“Through the continued development of Stealth Multi-Role, JFD is applying decades of operational life support expertise to support the evolving needs of defence diving communities.”

Developed in collaboration with operational stakeholders across global defence forces, the SMR has been precision engineered to address evolving requirements while prioritising diver safety, usability and operational reliability.

With a compact and improved ergonomic design, the SMR has been engineered to support mobility and usability throughout extended duration operations, allowing divers to focus on their mission with confidence that their equipment will remain fully operational.

Its modular, multi-role configuration is intended to enable operators to adapt the system across different mission profiles while maintaining consistent performance in operating environments where there is zero margin for error.

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“Building on more than four decades of established life support experience, Stealth Multi-Role leverages JFD’s unique insight gained by supporting defence diving contracts across the world, having sold thousands of systems to global defence forces and often with integrated support services which assure full operational availability,” said James Fisher Defence managing director Richard Devlin.

“Following CE certification of Stealth Multi-Role, we look forward to continuing engagement with operators and demonstrating its capabilities in support of future military diving requirements.”

Robert Dougherty

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