Ukraine’s Navy said one of its Sargan-3000 uncrewed surface vessels destroyed a Russian drone boat in the Black Sea, describing the engagement as the first battle in history between two uncrewed naval vessels. The Navy said its Defense Intelligence partners spotted the Russian craft before the Sargan-3000 closed in and destroyed it using a remote-controlled […]

A Russian military-affiliated Telegram channel has raised alarm that Ukraine’s reach at sea now extends beyond the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, framing a string of drone strikes on Russian-linked vessels there as part of a wider pattern that has already put Russian military and commercial assets at risk across three separate seas. Ukraine’s drone […]

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited the country’s navy on September 6, where officials showed him two unmanned surface vessels now being built inside Azerbaijan through a joint production line with a Turkish shipbuilder. Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva were briefed on the SALVO armed unmanned surface vessel and the KAYRA kamikaze unmanned surface vessel […]

The U.S. Navy demonstrated a system last month that can refuel an unmanned surface vessel at sea without any crew on board, a step toward keeping robotic boats on station indefinitely instead of returning to port when they run low on fuel. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division ran the demonstration off the coast […]

LeVanta Tech said it demonstrated its HALIA unmanned system at ANTX Coastal Trident last month, showing how the platform can link air, surface, subsea and seabed assets over long distances. Photos of HALIA show an unusual design. The drone sits low in the water with a dark, angular hull riding hull-down, mostly submerged. Two cylindrical […]

San Diego-based unmanned surface vessel maker Seasats said its Quickfish interceptor-class USV has entered production and is now available at scale. The company said Quickfish is built on Seasats’ existing technology stack and can sprint at more than 40 knots (74 km/h) while remaining at sea for weeks at a time. It has a large […]

Ukraine’s Navy said it destroyed a Russian uncrewed surface vessel near Snake Island in the Black Sea on Tuesday, according to Militarnyi. Footage released alongside the announcement shows the drone boat being struck by a precision munition dropped from an unmanned aerial vehicle after being detected. The vessel caught fire and detonated following the strike. […]

Leonardo DRS has adapted its ground-based counter-drone technology for use at sea, packaging it into a system called the Maritime-Mission Equipment Package, or M-MEP, the company said in a social media announcement. The M-MEP is built to detect, identify, track and defeat drones threatening ships, using a modular design intended to work across a range […]

A Swedish composites manufacturer just flew a boat that doesn’t touch the water. Aston Harald Composite completed the first test flight of an unmanned hydrofoil vessel called GhostFoiler in the waters of Stockholm last week, weaving among ferries and recreational boats in the city’s archipelago. The company said the craft performed well for a first […]

Voltaic Marine has completed live trials pairing its AEU39 uncrewed surface vessel with a Moog Space and Defense RIwP remote weapon turret, the company said this week. During the trials, the turret drew power directly from the AEU39’s 300 kilowatt-hour battery bank through standard interfaces, while the vessel held position on the water. The RIwP, […]