Saildrone 3000

Saildrone and Thales Australia Advance Autonomous Long-range Undersea Surveillance with USV–Towed Array Integration

Saildrone announced a strategic partnership with Thales Australia to integrate the Thales BlueSentry thin-line towed array with Saildrone Surveyor-class uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) for...
A full-size prototype of Manta Ray

Northrop Grumman Completes Assembly of Manta Ray Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle

Northrop Grumman Corporation completed assembly of a full-size uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) prototype known as Manta Ray. A new class of UUV, it is...
Expeditionary Portable Operations Centre (e-POC)

Thales Provides Expeditionary Operations Centre Demonstrator to French Navy for Drone-based Mine Countermeasures Missions

Thales took less than six months to develop the Expeditionary Portable Operations Centre (e-POC), a lightweight, full-function mission planning, management and analysis demonstrator...
The 132 ft autonomous Sea Hunter USV (Image credit: U.S. Navy)

US Navy to form second USV squadron

The U.S. Navy plans to stand up its second unmanned surface drone squadron this May, two years after the U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP) formed...
ECA Group

Beating the Minefield With Autonomous Countermeasures

The potential for autonomous mine hunting is now being realised - and the demand for it is growing. Technological developments in mine countermeasure (MCM) systems...
MARTAC T38 Devil Ray

2024 will see the AI conveyor belt move faster

During the past five years we've seen the U.S. and European militaries work hard to understand AI, plan for AI and invest in being...
Edge Reach-M (Image credit: Edge Group)

Acquisitions bolster Edge Group’s UAV capabilities

As one might expect UAE defence group Edge had a significant presence at the Dubai Airshow this week, launched 11 new aerospace products. It...
K40 MANTA prototype

Kraken and L3Harris Collaborate for USSV Innovation

Kraken Technology Group is pleased to announce an official collaboration with L3Harris Technologies to advance the integration of control systems within the K40 MANTA...
TF59 USV live firing

USN uncrewed systems exercise demonstrates lethal munitions use from USVs

The US Navy Central Command’s (NAVCENT’s) Gulf-based Task Force 59 (TF59) has conducted a live-firing exercise that included test firing weapons from uncrewed surface...
The US Navy (USN) released this undated still image, from video footage taken by an uncrewed surface vessel, of Iranian patrol forces operating in the Strait of Hormuz. The USN is integrating crewed and uncrewed platforms to increase surveillance and deterrence capacity across US 5th Fleet’s area of operations.

USN generates multi-task force crewed/uncrewed teaming in Gulf-based maritime security operations

The US Navy (USN) has demonstrated the integration of crewed and uncrewed platforms, drawn from several different USN maritime task groups, to generate enhanced...

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