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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Taiwanese drone firm held sea trials with six unmanned surface vessels last month ahead of a roughly $1 billion project ...

In an age of aerial drones and driver-less cars, Rolls-Royce is designing unmanned cargo ships. Rolls-Royce’s Blue Ocean development team has set up a virtual-reality prototype at its office in ...

DARPA is moving into Phase 2 of the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, which seeks to build and demonstrate a revolutionary new medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) that can go to sea and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...