The Navy created its first unit dedicated to surface drones, Unmanned Surface Vessel Division 1, in 2022. Paparo also said the Navy will launch Integrated Battle Problem 24.1 in March, which will ...

CORONADO, Calif. – The Navy on Friday took another step toward creating a surface fleet seamlessly integrated with uncrewed vessels by formally establishing its second unmanned surface drone ...

Navy leaders are eyeing a drone that can fly up to eight times longer than the MQ-9 Reaper and at a much lower cost.

So the Navy dropped the idea of a carrier drone until it was possible to launch one the same way it launched manned planes—via catapult.In the late 1990s, the Navy teamed up with the U.S. Air ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is nearly done assessing whether to put missile tubes on an unmanned surface vessel, comparing the idea to other options for getting missile launchers out to sea.

According to Navy budget documents, the MADS will consist of a Greenough Advanced Rescue Craft (GARC) drone boat outfitted with FIM-92 Stinger missile launchers to potentially “provide a low ...

The new Electric Launch System for Unmanned Aircraft allows UAS operations on a variety of vessels, including aircraft carriers, destroyers and expeditionary sea bases. General Atomics has ...

The littoral combat ship Savannah fires an SM-6 missile from a containerized launching system. The littoral combat ship Savannah on Tuesday fired a SM-6 missile from a “containerized launching ...

The U.S. Navy is about to lose a big chunk of the vertical missile cells that give it a firepower advantage over any potential foe. But there’s an obvious way to replace them. And the service at ...

The U.S. Navy's X-47B drone has become the first unmanned craft to complete a catapult launch from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Today's demonstration took place on the USS George H.W ...