BAE Systems has successfully completed a series of trials on a ‘first of its kind’ autonomous boat that will allow navies to go beyond the limits of human endurance with unmanned vessels that can travel further, for longer and to more inhospitable environments. The autonomous Pacific 950 Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) demonstrator has been used […]

DefenceTalkA technological breakthrough will allow any unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to not only protect Navy ships, but also, for the first time, autonomously “swarm” offensively on hostile vessels, officals at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced Oct. 5. The first-of-its-kind technology, successfully demonstrated over two weeks in August on the James River in Virginia, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navys-autonomous-swarmboats-can-overwhelm-adversaries-60690/