At the Naval Support and Experimentation Center of La Spezia, Fincantieri launched its first “DEEP” underwater drone system during a demonstration mission.
Sailing past the Balearic Islands and through the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the world's busiest maritime passages, the DriX O-16 completed the voyage in six days without port calls.
The German company Gabler Naval Technology has presented a project for reconnaissance and attack drones designed to be launched from submarine torpedo tubes.
A key advantage of the new systems is their software-defined architecture, which allows scaling the platforms’ functionality and adapting them to tasks of varying complexity.
Saildrone has announced that its Surveyor-class of unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has received full classification from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
The H-9 can carry multiple geophysical sensors simultaneously, such as side-scan sonar, magnetometer, multi-beam echo sounder and sub-bottom profilers.