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America just fires a drone out of an attack submarine's torpedo tube off Norway and catches it coming back through the same hole ten hours later, with nobody in the water, after losing the first one it ever launched that way
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (1478+ words) Defense procurement usually runs like a knockout tournament. Two companies build competing versions of the same thing, the Pentagon picks one, and the loser’s design goes in a drawer forever. That is the story behind more or less every fighter…...
An underwater drone the weight of a pickup truck just set a world record of 240 straight days living on the seabed of the Norwegian Sea, recharging in a garage bolted to the bottom — and working through 41-foot waves that no ship-tethered robot can survive
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (792+ words) Corporate mergers generate paperwork, not stories. Bankers argue over share ratios, lawyers argue over jurisdictions, and every press release calls the whole thing transformational. The Saipem and Subsea 7 deal has all of that. It also has something no other merger…...
A 28-foot drone boat just parachuted out the back of a military transport plane at 1,300 feet, hit the North Sea in 8-foot waves, cut itself loose from its sled and drove off on its own at up to 55 knots — four times in six days, same boat
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (914+ words) Drone boats have been rewriting naval warfare for a few years now, mostly thanks to Ukraine turning cheap uncrewed skiffs into Black Sea fleet-killers. The problem with the concept has always been the boring part: getting the things to the…...
While Germany burns drones with a laser on a tracked robot and Britain squeezes a 50-kilowatt beam onto a destroyer, an American company just blinded two drones with what amounts to an extremely rude flashlight — running inside optical safety limits
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (646+ words) Anyone who has taken a face full of high beams on a dark two-lane road knows the drill. For a second or two you are not really driving, you are guessing, because your eyes are too busy drowning in light…...
An American drone boat just docked and recharged itself with no human aboard, the first step toward five ocean buoys that already pull their own power out of the water, one of them moored over 1,000 meters of seawater off San Diego
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (1284+ words) A company in Monroe Township, New Jersey, says it has now taken the humans out of that trip. Ocean Power Technologies announced on May 7 that its WAM-V maritime drone approached a dock on its own, secured itself, recharged, and went…...
An American drone glider the Royal Navy just ordered can stay underwater more than two years on a single load of batteries, running the whole time on 23 kilowatt-hours, roughly what a US home burns in a day, because it barely uses a propeller at all
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (865+ words) Teledyne Marine just quietly walked past the whole conversation. Its Slocum Sentinel glider is rated to stay underwater for more than two years on a single load of batteries. It manages that not by hauling a bigger battery around, but…...
A 240-ton drone warship just ran 2,100 miles across open ocean with nobody aboard, docking itself and refueling from a crewed ship without a single person ever stepping onto it, and it's now sitting its final exams before DARPA hands it to the Navy
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (1082+ words) A warship is, once you strip the paint off the idea, an apartment building that shoots. Most of what fills a destroyer’s hull exists to feed, bunk, ventilate and generally keep alive the few hundred people who run the place....
Two torpedo drones just slipped off a robot boat for a coordinated attack below the surface, a second boat struck, a third checked the damage, and the maker's flagship turns into a torpedo when a warhead replaces the sensors
1+ week, 2+ day ago (668+ words) Two thousand vehicles a year would not keep the lights on at a car plant. Most American assembly lines clear that number in the first couple weeks of January, and nobody throws a party. In the underwater drone business, a…...
A gray British ship with a 120-ton crane on a two-mile wire just cruised past the Scottish coast, built to lower drones onto the garden-hose fiber cables that carry 99% of the world's internet — launching them through a hole cut in its own belly
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1231+ words) If you’ve ever squinted out from the Ayrshire coast toward that lump of granite in the Firth of Clyde, you know Ailsa Craig mostly as a bird sanctuary and the source of every curling stone that’s ever slid across Olympic…...
A Houston company ran an all-electric drone 7,500 feet down off Louisiana with no cable at all, no wire for power, no wire for commands, deep enough to reach 90% of the world's offshore oil fields, steered by sound because seawater eats every other signal
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (877+ words) For as long as robots have worked the floor of the ocean, they have done it on a leash. A remotely operated vehicle hangs off a thick umbilical cable that pipes down power and commands, and up on the surface…...
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