A LUCAS drone was successfully launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship currently ...

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was launched from the flight deck of littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara ...

U.S. Central Command assigned the LUCAS drone to Task Force Scorpion Strike, a unit created to develop and deploy one-way ...

The U.S. Navy’s unmanned ships can flip themselves upright in hurricanes, launch weapons, and operate for months without ...

The Navy regularly tests unmanned vessels in the Charleston Harbor and recently sent one of these boats across the Atlantic ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy completed its first deployment of four unmanned ships, which spent five months in the Pacific testing concepts for how to integrate their capabilities into crewed fleet ...

A grant-winning concept that envisioned a one-of-kind fleet of robotic, low-emission offshore vessels, has turned into ...

The U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy are both moving forward with unmanned ships to augment their manned ships’ capabilities at sea. A recent bilateral exercise between the two... The Chief of ...

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler R. Fraser/DVIDS The U.S. Navy is betting big on unmanned ships as a way to grow the fleet without busting its budget. The service, ...

Traditionally crewed ships and aircraft teamed up with 12 unmanned platforms to conduct enhanced maritime security operations in the Strait of Hormuz last month. The exercise involved “tracking” ...

The chief of naval operations’ newly released 2022 Navigation Plan calls for a large “hybrid fleet” consisting of a mixture of large surface ships, submarines, drones, and unmanned platforms of all ...

The large unmanned surface vessel Ranger transits the Pacific Ocean to participate in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 on June 22. (MC1 Tyler Fraser/US Navy) WASHINGTON — The testing of four ...