A ship like none that the U.S. Navy has ever launched is now sailing the waters off the coast of Washington state.
The unmanned surface vessel USX-1 Defiant is now in its testing phase after being completed last month, according to a news release from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
DARPA said the Defiant is part of its No Manning Required Ship program.
Defiant is 180 feet long and weighs 240 metric tons.
DARPA said the vessel “will undergo extensive in-water testing, both dockside and at sea. She is scheduled to depart for a multi-month at sea demonstration in spring 2025.”
“The NOMARS program aims to challenge the traditional naval architecture model, designing a seaframe (the ship without mission systems) from the ground up with no provision, allowance, or expectation for humans on board,” DARPA said in its release.
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The unmanned surface vessel USX-1 Defiant is now in its testing phase after being completed last month, according to a news release from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
DARPA said the Defiant is part of its No Manning Required Ship program.
Defiant is 180 feet long and weighs 240 metric tons.
DARPA said the vessel “will undergo extensive in-water testing, both dockside and at sea. She is scheduled to depart for a multi-month at sea demonstration in spring 2025.”
“The NOMARS program aims to challenge the traditional naval architecture model, designing a seaframe (the ship without mission systems) from the ground up with no provision, allowance, or expectation for humans on board,” DARPA said in its release.
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