The US Navy wants a robotic crawler to eliminate the most dangerous underwater threat: sea mines
Finding and disposing of underwater mines on the sea floor is one of the US Navy's hardest and most dangerous tasks. Robots could do the work safer.
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The US Navy needs drone aircraft carriers, naval analysts argue
The time has come for the US Navy to field a new type ... or kamikaze boats as in the Ukraine war. So why not larger unmanned vessels equivalent in size to, say, a frigate or destroyer and ...
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US Marines get next-gen missile-launching boats with helicopter-like striking power
The U.S. Marine Corps has received the first batch of Whiskey Bravo multi-mission reconnaissance boats with advanced ...
Mysterious unmanned warship spotted off of Washington state coast
The Defiant may have a role in the U.S. Navy’s drone ‘hellscape’ to help defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression ...
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The Navy's silent drone destroyer is this ridiculously powerful laser
It's no surprise that the U.S. Navy has a massive suite of ... While the laser is intended to take down drones, it can also disable some small boats. The beauty of the laser is that it's much ...
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The US Navy's New Military Laser Successfully Shoots Drones Out Of The Sky
The HELIOS system has been in development since 2018, and in fiscal year 2024, it was used to shoot target drones. If you're wondering why the Navy would dump the tried and true methods of hitting ...
US Hopes Robo-Ships Can Outwit China's Superior Naval Numbers
The US Navy's USX-1 Defiant unmanned surface vessel (USV) promises cost-effective, high-endurance fleet expansion while ...
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U.S. Spy Drone Tracked Near Iran as Attack Prospects Grow
While Iran said the drone had violated their airspace, the U.S. said that it was operating in international airspace. The US Navy's MQ-4C Triton aircraft, powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007 engine ...