Buoyed in the Pacific, small sea vessels have traveled autonomously from San Diego shores to locate Chinese ghost fleets in Taiwanese waters. These small skiffs, created by San Diego-based startup Seasats,

A fleet of autonomous vessels backed by the US Navy has been launched off California to hunt down Chinese ghost ships. San Diego startup Seasats crafted the special boats to perform intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions at sea without a human operator onboard.

The U.S. Navy's top drone task force in the Middle East only started operating the Corsair uncrewed surface vessels in March.

Approximately two hours after the crash, the two were rescued, the US Central Command for the Middle East and Central Asia announced. The US Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter was on a patrol flight off the coast of Oman and crashed around 3 a.m. local time. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

A US drone boat conducted a first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the crew of an American Apache helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the military said. The 24-foot Saronic Corsair autonomous surface vessel,

The Defense Department is using autonomous surface vessels to patrol the waters of the Rio Grande to detect drug smugglers and deter illegal crossings.

An autonomous low-profile vessel at the Del Mar Boat Basin at Camp Pendleton, California, February 2024. (Kevin Ray J. Salvador/Marine Corps) (Kevin Ray Salvador) The Army is developing requirements to distribute supplies to troops on the battlefield in a ...