Many strategists, myself included, believe that unmanned surface vessels could be part of an approach to help the U.S. Navy maintain an edge over its ...

HII announced that the successful shipboard deployment and recovery of a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle (UUV) using the ...

In 2021 an unmanned ship fired a live missile proving a major shift in naval warfare. This video explores how autonomous ...

At about 2,000 years old, the “Ship of Theseus” puzzle still feels resonant: if every part of a ship is replaced, is it still the same ship? The modern U.S. Navy faces the reverse dilemma—what happens ...

Even though Ukraine does not have much in the way of a navy, it has scored several victories against the Russian military by using drone boats known as unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, providing ...

The future on the high seas for the Navy may be one without sailors. Unmanned ships like the USS Mariner and Ranger, and the recently launched USX-1 Defiant, are opening up a world that gives the Navy ...

The Indian Navy, in collaboration with Bharat Electronics Limited, has developed A2NCS, a software enabling unmanned surface ...

The vehicles will patrol the adjacent water area and repel attacks by surface drones.

A new hunter is lurking in the deep — and it's made of metal, silicon, and lots and lots of artificial intelligence. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially launched its ...

President Donald Trump and Navy leaders say the nation needs about 350 ships, roughly 75 more ships than the fleet has today. But there isn’t money in the defense budget to buy a lot of new ships at ...

POCASSET, Mass., Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII), the world’s leading manufacturer of autonomous underwater ...