We hear a lot about aerial and underwater drones, but ones that travel on the water's surface … not so much. They can be quite useful, though, as we discovered when we recently checked out the Heron ...

You've heard of UAVs, unmanned remote controlled military aircraft; but what about USVs? Standing for Unmanned Surface Vehicle, a USV is quite simply an unmanned boat, like Zyvex Marine's Piranha ...

Small unmanned boats, packed with explosives and steered via satellite, are among the main weapons of Ukraine’s escalating naval campaign targeting the Russian Black Sea Fleet. These boats have struck ...

Louisiana-based boat builder Metal Shark is set to debut its latest unmanned surface vessel at the upcoming Sea-Air-Space military symposium in National Harbor, Maryland, with three days of on-water ...

January 7, 2024: Over a decade ago the U.S. Navy developed a new Unmanned Surface Vessel or USV, called the Blackfish. It was designed from scratch as a USV, not just the usual practice of taking ...

EGS Survey’s 12-metre-long USV Fremantle 01 is equipped with GAMA software that enables it to conduct autonomous operations ...

On September 21st an odd piece of flotsam washed up on the outskirts of Sevastopol. It was about five and a half metres long and the consensus was that it was a USV (uncrewed surface vessel, ...

In a sign of things to come, an autonomous boat has just made a cargo run from the UK to Belgium. The 12m-long Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) SEA-KIT Maxlimer crossed from West Mersea to Oostende on ...

DUBAI- The UAE-based Al Marakeb Boat Manufacturing Company has revealed the launch of its latest offering, the B7X. The new model, which can be utilised for both manned and unmanned operations, is ...

Company representatives say China has a working prototype of the JARI USV, which is equipped like a mini DDG, but details beyond that are scant. (Photo by David B. Larter) ABU DHABI –The Chinese ...