A Chinese civilian ship was equipped with several armed and aircraft-launching configurations over the last few weeks, ...

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 ...

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, ...

High-resolution images emerging from Shanghai have revealed China’s most tangible step yet toward ship-based unmanned combat ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

China has completed the first flight of its Jiutian unmanned "mothership," a large drone designed to deploy dozens of smaller ...

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 ...

A new unmanned vessel division established by the San Diego-based Naval Surface Forces will expand the services’ testing and operation of unmanned surface ships in Southern California, the Navy ...

The Flying Ship Company is currently working toward introducing a new type of maritime cargo transport vehicle and they claim it will disrupt the global logistics market, creating new opportunities.

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 ...