The RINA Warship conference in Adelaide in June 2024 heard that surface combatant survivability needs to be revisited to address challenges posed by attacks by multiple UAVs, and uncrewed vessels have challenges all of their own. Future warships will have to be able to survive – and fight – in the face of a new […]
Drawing on design practice employed in surface combatants and aircraft carriers, a project to develop concept designs for drone carriers has been developed in response to growing use of naval USVs. The use of drones in naval warfare has come sharply into focus since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the use of uncrewed units […]
In the UK, raw sewage spills are no longer a rare occurrence: they’re an ongoing national scandal. According to conservation experts The Rivers Trust, only 14% of rivers in England can be considered to be in “good” ecological health. As if that wasn’t damning enough, a 2022 House of Commons committee report described England’s rivers […]
With its projected value of US$4.05 billion by 2050, it’s easy to see why the ‘blue economy’ is spawning a race to deliver smarter, safer and more efficient ways to monitor our oceans, writes Matthew Ratsey. The offshore renewables sector (wind, tide, wave and thermal) is growing to augment, and potentially replace, existing hydrocarbon energy […]
Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics plans to launch a diesel-electric USV workboat class this summer, developed for tasks including search and rescue, surveying and environmental studies, in crewed or uncrewed mode. The first unit in the new Selkie series, the Selkie 7, will feature a length of 7m, a breadth of 2.35m and a 0.4m draught, […]