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HMS Trent (P224) entering Portsmouth for the first time, December 2019.

Royal Navy drone operators flew more than 240kg of supplies from patrol ship HMS Trent to Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in an hour-long trial the service calls a first of its kind

A four-rotor drone that can lift 68kg shuttled more than 240kg of supplies from a

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Swedish submarine Gotland alongside with Swedish flag

Saab and Sweden built and launched a large uncrewed underwater vehicle demonstrator less than a year after the contract award, and it has completed sea trials, Saab says

From signed order to a vehicle in the water took under 12 months, by Saab’s

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Army cavalry soldiers set up drone and electronic warfare equipment in a field

After more than 90 hours of live drone-defense trials, the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment found its hardest problem was not shooting drones down but merging four separate battle networks

Knocking small drones out of the sky turned out to be the manageable part. When

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Trimaran drone ship Seahawk in Sydney's Darling Harbour

The Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group has deployed with Seahawk, a 145-ton drone ship, in what the Navy’s acting secretary calls a first for a carrier group

Seahawk, a trimaran-hulled drone ship that displaces 145 long tons fully loaded, has deployed with

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Navy unmanned surface vessel Ranger at sea

The U.S., Australia and Britain are testing more than 40 military technologies off Southern California in Maritime Big Play Pacific, a three-week AUKUS trial running through Oct. 25

More than 40 military technologies from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom are

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Small drone separating from an XQ-58A Valkyrie in flight

L3Harris says its Wolf Pack launched-effect drones have now completed 60 flight tests, 44 from ground launchers, 13 from fixed-wing aircraft and three from helicopters

L3Harris has put a number on its launched-effects testing: its Wolf Pack of Red Wolf

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Robotic surgical arms in an operating room with medical staff

DARPA wants robots that can assess, plan and carry out a trauma procedure without human intervention, and has opened a $3.5 million prize competition with finals in March 2027

A shortage of surgeons on the battlefield is the bottleneck DARPA wants prize money to

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Australian Army Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicles, from the order of 211, during early training in 2020.

Rheinmetall says a Boxer crew member with less than 30 minutes of training commanded a drone swarm by voice through the vehicle’s headset while operating the vehicle

Less than 30 minutes of training was all one Australian Boxer crew member had before

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The MQ-25 unmanned aircraft with folded wings on a carrier deck surrounded by sailors

Lockheed Martin says the Navy has doubled the number of carriers ready to fly the MQ-25A Stingray drone in five months, with USS Ronald Reagan joining USS Theodore Roosevelt

Two U.S. aircraft carriers now have an operational MD-5C ground control station for the MQ-25A

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A U.S. Army soldier with the 2nd Infantry Division handles a small first-person-view drone during a training course at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Gauntlet 2 at Fort Carson is not shown

In the Pentagon’s second drone Gauntlet at Fort Carson, 23 drone models from 19 companies flew 1,858 sorties, and all 11 long-range models reached 15 kilometers

Every long-range drone at Fort Carson went the distance. Operators at the Colorado post logged

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