SEA has partnered with innovative navigation provider, iXblue, to develop an autonomous anti-submarine surveillance system, SeaDrix™, for long endurance surveillance patrols.
MAST-13, a next-generation unmanned surface vehicle (USV) that could be used to protect the UK’s future warships was delivered to Dstl by L3Harris during DSEI 2019.
The U.S. Navy released a draft request for proposals (RFP) to industry for the development of the Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle (LUSV), on August 9.
The unmanned surface vessel of the SLAMF/MMCM program carried out a demonstration of its capabilities in Brest harbor in June 2019. Testing with teams from the French Navy, French Armament General Directorate (DGA) and Thales is ongoing while qualification for the whole system (USV + payload) is set for December this year.
Here is NavalNews.com’s sixth monthly report (July 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.
There will be 1200 drones in the French Navy in 2030, Marine Nationale’s Chief-of-Staff admiral Christophe Prazuck recently declared to the Commission of National Defence and Armed Forces of the French Assemblée Nationale.
BAE Systems has successfully completed a series of trials with the Pacific 950 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) fitted with MSI Defence’s new lightweight remote weapon station (RWS).
The U.S. Navy released a request for proposals (RFP) to industry for the development of the Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV), on July 16.
According to local media, the Russian Navy started to experiment the use of UUVs and USVs from its Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate. UAVs are set to be tested from Russia’s latest generation of frigates as well.
