The transmissions exposed a component-level gap in the supply-chain label Western governments use to screen military electronics.
A $9.25 billion Texas autonomy firm and one of Korea's three biggest shipbuilders will co-develop autonomous vessels and robot-driven production lines for American shipyards.
CENTCOM named the platform behind the first combat strike by American sea drones: three Saronic-built Corsairs hit Iran's Bandar Abbas naval port on July 12.
The Saronic Corsair is a 24-foot (7.3 m) American autonomous surface vessel built for mass production. In June 2026 a Task Force 59 Corsair recovered a downed Apache crew off Oman — the first at-sea personnel rescue ever carried out by an uncrewed vessel.
MOBIDIK is a modular Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel family from Avarid, unveiled in June 2026 in six combat variants spanning maritime air defense, medium- and strategic-range strike, missile-and-gun engagement and a 300 kg assault configuration.
The Kraken K3 Scout is a UK-built 8.4-metre high-speed uncrewed surface vessel — 55 knots, 600 kg modular payload — fielded by the Royal Navy under Project Beehive and the first drone boat ever airdropped from a transport aircraft.
A $175 million Series B makes Kraken Technology Group Europe's newest maritime-defence unicorn, a week after its uncrewed K3 SCOUT became the first drone boat parachuted into the sea from a transport aircraft.
The larger, missile-armed evolution of Ukraine's Magura naval drone — a sea drone that carries AIM-9 Sidewinders and, in May 2025, became the first uncrewed vessel to shoot down crewed fighter jets, downing two Russian Su-30s in the Black Sea.
Ukraine's SBU-developed multi-purpose uncrewed surface vessel — from one-way ramming strikes on the Kerch Bridge and Black Sea Fleet ships to a modular platform firing rockets, missiles, and mines, culminating in the world's first underwater drone attack on a submarine.
Ukraine's game-changing naval attack drone — a low-profile, satellite-controlled USV that has sunk multiple Russian warships and scored the first-ever uncrewed vessel air-to-air kill.
Red Cat put its V7 unmanned boat into full-rate production days before Ukrainian drones reached Russia's Baltic Fleet at Kronstadt. The two events describe one reversal: the combat-proven Ukrainian sea drone has become a Western product line.