maritime drones News
Latest maritime drones news and analysis — 22 articles tagged maritime drones on The Robotics Media.
- SOCOM Picks Sea Machines SM300-SP Autonomy Kits To Convert Local Boats Into USVs — — U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Sea Machines Robotics a five-year IDIQ for SM300-SP autonomy kits, letting operators turn locally sourced...
- Textron Wins $85M In Navy Task Orders For Aerosonde ISR Drones In The Pacific — — Textron Systems has landed two Navy task orders worth up to about $85M to fly Aerosonde Mk. 4.7 VTOL drones as contractor-owned ISR services supportin...
- Iran Seizes Anduril Dive-LD Underwater Drone That Had Been 'Dead In The Water' Near Hormuz — — U.S. Central Command says the Anduril Dive-LD that Iran's IRGC Navy claims to have seized near the Strait of Hormuz was an older model that had malfun...
- UFORCE Nears $5B Valuation In $500M Round Led By Valor Equity Partners — — London-based UFORCE is in advanced talks to raise about $500 million at a roughly $5 billion valuation in a round led by Antonio Gracias' Valor Equity...
- TEKEVER Signs Portuguese Air Force AR5 Drone Deal, First Delivery September — — Pan-European autonomous systems company TEKEVER has signed a contract to supply its long-endurance AR5 unmanned aerial system to the Portuguese Air Fo...
- Blue Water Autonomy Wins Navy $40M NAVOCEANO Survey IDIQ — — Boston-based Blue Water Autonomy has been selected for a multi-year, multiple-award $40M IDIQ contract with the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office to con...
- Flyde Launches $57 Beluga Drone Deliveries To French Riviera Yachts — — French startup Flyde began commercial drone deliveries to yachts anchored off Juan-les-Pins on August 1, using the CAVOK-built Beluga to lower parcels...
- Missile-Armed Saildrone Surveyor Joins RIMPAC 2026 As Navy Expands USV Operations — — The Saildrone Surveyor USV departed Pearl Harbor on July 8, 2026 to begin RIMPAC 2026 armed with a Lockheed Martin launcher for four AGM-179 JAGM miss...
- NATO Approves $40B Drone Edge Counter-Drone Initiative In Ankara — — NATO Allies committed more than $40 billion over five years to counter-drone defenses, drone procurement and operator training under the new Drone Edg...
- NATO Buys Up To Five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton Drones At Ankara Summit — — Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway will procure up to five MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft as NATO expands its ISR fleet, with Airbus and other Europ...
- Saronic Launches Mirage, 52-Foot Autonomous Vessel for US Navy — — Saronic Technologies has launched Mirage, a 52-foot autonomous surface vessel with 2,500-nautical-mile range and 3,500-pound payload, now in trials in...
- Ukraine Unveils Sea Trident Heavy Underwater Drone at Eurosatory 2026 — — Ukrainian developer Global Mark presented Sea Trident, a 10-tonne autonomous underwater drone with a 1,000 kg payload and 2,000 nautical-mile range, a...
- Maritime Robotics Raises €28M Led by MS+PARTNERS to Scale Autonomous Sea Drones — — Norway's Maritime Robotics has secured a €28 million ($32.5M) growth investment led by London-based MS+PARTNERS to scale Otter and Mariner USV manufac...
- Saronic's Autonomous Corsair Drone Boat Rescues U.S. Apache Pilots Near Strait Of Hormuz — — A Saronic Corsair autonomous surface vessel picked up two U.S. Army Apache aviators after their helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz, the fi...
- Shvabe Holding Unveils AI Counter-Drone Interceptor System At Russia's Fleet 2026 — — Rostec subsidiary Shvabe Holding has revealed a neural network-guided counter-drone system for coastal and maritime defense at the Fleet 2026 show in...
- USS Theodore Roosevelt To Deploy With Seahawk Unmanned Surface Vessel — — For the first time, a robotic surface ship will sail as a designated member of a U.S. carrier strike group. The Seahawk medium USV marks the Navy's sh...
- AUKUS Launches Pillar II Undersea Drone Project With Deliveries Starting in 2027 — — Defense leaders from the US, UK and Australia unveiled a trilateral signature project at the Shangri-La Dialogue to develop interchangeable UUV payloa...
- US Navy Kicks Off MUSV Marketplace Demos With Saronic, Leidos, HII — — The US Navy's Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel marketplace programme begins live demonstrations in June 2026, putting Saronic, Leidos, HII, Sea Machines...
- Blue Water Autonomy Starts Liberty-Class Construction at Conrad Shipyard — — Blue Water Autonomy has begun construction of the first Liberty-class autonomous warship at Conrad Shipyard, with the 190-foot vessel due for Navy del...
- Saildrone Unveils 52-Meter Spectre USV for Anti-Submarine Warfare With Lockheed Martin — — Saildrone unveiled Spectre at Sea-Air-Space 2026: a 52-meter, 30-knot medium unmanned surface vessel built with Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri for an...