92% availability vs 30%. USV vs crewed vessels.
"Saildrone ran four Voyager uncrewed vessels for the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation and
published the tally in February. Across six months the four boats logged over 170,000 unique vessel detections, covered more than 20,000 nautical miles and kept fleet uptime at 92%.
"The comparison Saildrone drew is the part that gets a defense ministry’s attention. A crewed warship spends closer to 30% of its service life actually available for duty, because hulls need dockyards and sailors need to go home."
Defense Express went through the material image by image and noted that the X-Wave's recognition software correctly tagged crew moving on deck and the Ka-27
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The Danes are now building their own.
UK-based autonomous marine surveillance company Stormborn has introduced a new unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of operating under a broad range of sea st
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" a sensor mast that travels on a trailer "
A 10m boat with "a Terma radar that can be tied into existing coastal radar to push coverage over the horizon, a Teledyne Marine passive acoustic array for listening underwater, and a MyDefence counter-drone system" that can be deployed by a pichup and trailer and launched anywhere.
"Denmark’s 2025 fleet plan already committed to a development program for uncrewed naval systems, and Danish startups are attacking the same coverage problem from other directions. One Copenhagen company raised a €1 million pre-seed in July to
scatter passive microphones across the seabed and listen for saboteurs instead of chasing them."
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Marry these up with NSMs on Bushmasters and PrSMs on HIMARS, together with UAVs and the littoral starts stretching a long way off shore.
With minimal manpower employed and at risk.
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