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Australian Navy Acquires 5 Bluebottle USVs
The Royal Australian Navy has signed a contract with Ocius for the procurement of five BlueBottle unmanned surface vessels (USV) in the current fiscal year.
29 November 2022
The Royal Australian Navy has signed a contract with Ocius for the procurement of five BlueBottle unmanned surface vessels (USV) in the current fiscal year.
The Australian Army tested a new type of unmanned surveillance vessel (USV), the “Bluebottle” by local company Ocius, during Operation Resolute.
While analysts and experts are still talking about Ukraine’s shocking kamikaze attack on Russian warships at the Sevastopol naval base, Ukraine has launched a new fundraising campaign to build a unmanned surface vessel fleet.
Ukraine conducted a new surprise attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet on October 29, 2022. This time, it targeted naval combatants at the Russian naval base of Sevastopol, opening a new era of naval warfare by using unmanned surface ships as suicide drones.
As part of the future hydrographic and oceanographic capability (CHOF) program for the French Navy, the DGA awarded a contract to IXblue (now EXAIL) for a new experimentation of the Drix – hydrographic Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) – on September 26, 2022.
As readers of Naval News know, the world’s ports and harbors are crucial to global trade. From Antwerp, to Shanghai, to Los Angeles to other mega-ports and hundreds of smaller harbors, these crucial nodes are vital to world trade.
Turkiye’s brand new unmanned surface vessel (USV) “MARLIN” has demonstrated its capabilities during NATO exercises in Portugal…
French shipbuilder Naval Group will soon be experimenting and testing technologies for Medium and Large Unmanned Surface Vessels – MUSV and LUSV.
Saab’s test platform for the development of autonomous functions Enforcer III, which was converted from the Combat Boat 90, was tested in a joint trial by Saab and the Swedish Navy in the southern Baltic Sea.
The U.S. Navy prevented a support ship from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) from capturing an unmanned surface vessel operated by the U.S. 5th Fleet in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 29-30.
