
The Royal Danish Navy (RDN) has deployed Schiebel’s unmanned air system (UAS) CAMCOPTER S-100 to carry out maritime surveillance tasks over a two-month period.

The US Navy has officially handed over the RQ-21A unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to the Royal Thai Navy during a ceremony held in Bangkok.

Independent systems engineering and software company Systems Engineering & Assessment has completed another series of operational demonstrations of its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) solution aboard MSubs’ extra large uncrewed undersea vehicle (XLUUV) platform.

The US Navy’s Pacific Fleet (CNSP) established Unmanned Surface Vessel Division (USVDIV) One during a ceremony held on 13 May.

Defence technology company Anduril Industries and the Australian Defence Force are entering into commercial negotiations for a $100 million co-funded design, development and manufacturing program for extra large autonomous undersea vehicles (XL-AUVs) for the Royal Australian Navy.

French manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) RTsys has received a contract to supply of one COMET-MCM AUV and two NEMOSENS micro-AUVs to the Slovenian Navy.

Austrian unmanned aerial system (UAS) manufacturer Schiebel has been awarded a follow-on contract to supply the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) with additional Camcopter S-100 rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

QinetiQ has won a four-year, Vampire Phase 1 contract to support the Royal Navy’s future high-performance unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations.

US-based designer and builder of steel military and commercial vessels Bollinger Shipyards has received a contract from the US Navy for the production of the mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicle (MCM USV).

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been selected by the Japan Coast Guard to provide MQ-9B SeaGuardian for its Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) project.

Global engineering and defense technologies provider Huntington Ingalls Industries has revealed that its unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) REMUS 300 was selected as the US Navy’s next-generation small UUV (SUUV) program of record.

Airbus Helicopters has begun trialing autonomous take-off and landing (ATOL) capabilities at sea for the VSR700, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) being developed in the frame of the SDAM (Système de drone aérien de la Marine) program for the French Navy.

The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded a contract to defence tech company QinetiQ to procure a low-cost fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of the Project Vampire.

Submersible manufacturer MSubs and marine robotics technology company Sonardyne have signed a strategic partnership to boost the capabilities of long endurance, autonomous underwater platforms for the UK defence sector.