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AUTONOMOUS VESSELS MILITARY SPEND PLANS

Anduril plans to build small, mass-producible

K5 KRAKEN and K7 SABRE USVs.

Source: Kraken Technology

Saildrone has introduced Spectre, a 52-meter, 250 ton USV capable of up to 30 knots.

Source: Saildrone ity, range and mission ? exibility while maintaining rapid de- In April, HII announced plans for the production of four ployability and ease of use (meeting the Navy requirement to ROMULUS 151 vessels to be built by Breaux Brothers in ? t in a 20’ shipping container). Comet is BlackSea’s larger, Louisiana in addition to the ROMULUS 151 currently under high speed combat ready platform, designed to bridge the construction. ROMULUS is a modular family of AI-enabled gap between small tactical USVs and larger unmanned com- USVs designed to support a wide range of missions and to bat craft. The 13.1-meter vessel can exceed 45 knots, carry a scale across multiple vessel sizes while maintaining a com- 10,000-pound payload including fuel, and support advanced mon manufacturing approach and autonomy baseline.

payloads for missions including counter drone operations, Earlier this year, Saronic released two new ASV models: the mine countermeasures, surface warfare, antisubmarine war- 40-foot Mirage and the 60-foot Cipher. The new vessels offer fare, electronic warfare, maritime domain awareness and high extended range and up to 10,000 pounds of carrying capacity. value unit escort. Mirage and Cipher join Saronic’s Spyglass (6’), Cutlass (14’),

The Chaser launch highlights BlackSea’s work with key and Corsair (24’), as well as the recently introduced medium mission partners, including Lockheed Martin for the JAGM unmanned surface vessel, Marauder.

launcher, Echodyne radars for maritime domain awareness and Leonardo DRS has selected Sea Machines Robotics new high-? delity threat targeting, Current for perception camera 8-meter USV developed for the defense market to demon- systems, and EOS Defense Systems USA for the gun system. strate their maritime mission equipment package for coun- 14 July/August 2026

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