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A 56-foot drone boat gets named in Plymouth on Wednesday with a 20-foot shipping-container slot cut into the middle of it, rated to four tonnes and wired with 30 kilowatts of its own power, and nobody will say what goes in the hole

By Luis Reyes — Aug 9, 2026

One of America’s two new combat drones was built to play the enemy in training so real jets would not have to, and it has now fired an AIM-120 over the Mojave at a target that existed only in software

By Luis Reyes — Aug 9, 2026

A 1,350-ton machine named Nora arrived in 22 pieces, took four months to bolt together and bored 2.5 miles under the Hudson to carry half of New York’s drinking water around a leaking crack, and the tunnel she cut has never held a drop

By Luis Reyes — Aug 8, 2026

A 46-foot drone boat sat 16 miles off Plymouth for more than 100 hours with nobody touching it, picked up a low-power distress beacon 13.7 miles away and pinned it to within 65 feet, and it did all of it with the hydrogen taken out and a diesel put in

By Luis Reyes — Aug 8, 2026

While seven American drone warships finish Navy sea trials this October, the 14-ton boat promised to hold 50 knots through 20-foot seas on Palantir software has yet to touch the water, and its own deadline runs out in five months

By Luis Reyes — Aug 8, 2026

A 2,118-ton German machine named Paulina had gone 192 meters under the Swiss Alps when 2,000 cubic meters of rock came down around her, and while she sat there for 329 days her twin at the other end of the mountain was covering up to 32 meters in a single day

By Luis Reyes — Aug 7, 2026

An American drone crosses 2,700 miles inside five shipping containers, gets bolted together on a dock in two days, swims out by pumping seawater through itself instead of turning a propeller, then anchors to the ocean floor and sleeps there until someone wakes it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 7, 2026

A 236-foot American solar drone with a wingspan longer than a 747’s flew eight days over the Gulf with no fuel and nobody aboard, ran a Navy radar the whole time, and then went into the water on the way home because the batteries ran flat before sunrise

By Luis Reyes — Aug 7, 2026

A 12.75-inch American drone finds a 21-inch torpedo tube on a submarine in water where nobody can see anything, holds the alignment with four inches of clearance a side, parks itself in a capsule and then reverses back out without turning around

By Luis Reyes — Aug 7, 2026

A 55-pound drone flies 20 miles out, drops two mortar rounds on two different targets and comes home to be reloaded, with the radio jammed and the GPS denied the whole way, and the Pentagon wants each one to do that 150 times

By Luis Reyes — Aug 6, 2026

A 6,000-meter Norwegian drone submarine just spent a month reading a volcanic ridge in the Arctic down to five centimeters, passing over 38 million tons of copper that nobody in Norway is allowed to touch until at least 2029

By Luis Reyes — Aug 6, 2026

America just ordered a shipping container holding 500 kilowatts of laser to burn cruise missiles and drone swarms out of the sky, eight times the strongest one the Navy has at sea, and the Army already tried the 300-kilowatt version and cut it to one

By Luis Reyes — Aug 6, 2026

A 380-ton German machine 335 feet long threads a steel chain under a live railway, drags the stone out from beneath the crossties like a chainsaw laid flat, washes it and drops it back in behind itself, and never takes the rails apart

By Luis Reyes — Aug 5, 2026

While Iran is estimated to hold as many as 6,000 sea mines, the American answer is a 26-pound drone fired from a sonobuoy tube that swims out on four water jets, holds position over the mine, films it for an operator far away and dies destroying it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 5, 2026

An American drone boat drove itself almost 40 nautical miles across Hawaiian water carrying a 3D-printed spare part, handed it to a Canadian navy oiler and drove home, and nobody was jamming it, spoofing it or shooting at it the whole way

By Luis Reyes — Aug 5, 2026

An American machine carrying 40 grinding stones and 1,200 horsepower was just cleared to work British rails at 20 mph, hauling up to 29,000 gallons of water for no reason other than to stop its own sparks setting the lineside on fire

By Luis Reyes — Aug 5, 2026

Two 1,100-ton machines rated for 59 feet a day averaged about half that under Vancouver, took 16 and 18 months against a plan of 12, and the trains they made room for are now running test laps with ballast standing in for passengers

By Luis Reyes — Aug 5, 2026

NASA just opened its first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, a 131-foot building in Virginia with four 14-foot fans and 3,000 horsepower blowing straight up, and the chamber inside it is a foot shorter than the tunnel it replaces

By Luis Reyes — Aug 4, 2026

A 9,600-ton American cruiser took rockets, missiles and helicopter fire off Hawaii for the better part of a day, and the thing that finally put her under was a torpedo from the only Canadian submarine still able to sail

By Luis Reyes — Aug 4, 2026

A 305-pound American drone boat doing 5 knots picked up a Chinese destroyer on radar 10 miles out, closed to within a few hundred meters and filmed it, and the destroyer turned to watch it back

By Luis Reyes — Aug 4, 2026

Two 1,490-ton boring machines that had already dug the Sydney Metro were trucked to Brisbane in parts, rebuilt, tested, taken apart again and lowered into a hole in the ground to be built a third time

By Luis Reyes — Aug 4, 2026

The Navy took a 7-foot drone’s depth sensors, sonar and buoyancy with nothing but a wall of air bubbles in a Latvian harbor, and the Coast Guard just gave industry until August 7 to offer something better

By Luis Reyes — Aug 3, 2026

The battery packs going into drone submarines now have no box around them, no oil and no compensator bladder, just cells cast into polymer and dropped into water pushing 8,700 pounds on every square inch

By Luis Reyes — Aug 3, 2026

Two machines named Grace and Sandy bored 9.4 miles of twin tunnel under Perth and both came out the far end, and the 85 feet of tunnel that ended up permanently bent was the stretch men were digging by hand between them

By Luis Reyes — Aug 3, 2026

A 7.2-ton Swedish underwater drone carries a sidescan sonar, a flank array and a deliberately empty room in the middle of it, with spare weight allowance built in for whatever eventually gets dropped out on the seabed

By Luis Reyes — Aug 3, 2026

A 110-pound French drone aims its own head at a sea mine instead of pointing its body at it, tilting 90 degrees either way, then fires a shaped charge and goes up with the mine, and NATO buys them by the several hundred

By Luis Reyes — Aug 2, 2026

An American team started cutting the nose, tail and midsection of a hydrogen drone submarine in July, an 8.8-ton machine 38 feet long built to run 3,100 miles underwater and stay down 38 days without coming up

By Luis Reyes — Aug 2, 2026

An Australian mining company drilled 89 holes 34 miles long in total into Saskatchewan, pumped them full of chilled brine to freeze 2,625 feet of waterlogged sand into rock, and is now thawing it back a degree at a time

By Luis Reyes — Aug 2, 2026

A Danish drone boat sitting at anchor in the Baltic filmed a 330-foot Russian corvette running past at 650 feet with its transponder off, tagged the crew and the helicopter on the pad, and got the quadcopter wrong

By Luis Reyes — Aug 1, 2026

An 860-ton machine arrived in the Nevada desert on 50 trucks, spun 48 cutter wheels through volcanic rock at 18 feet an hour for 31 months, and cut a five-mile horseshoe 984 feet down that now has barn owls living in it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 1, 2026

A 70-pound French box flies a drone off an 11.6-ton boat with nobody aboard and keeps it up for 24 hours without landing once, fed by a 230-foot cable that carries current up and video back down at 100 megabits a second

By Luis Reyes — Aug 1, 2026

California just finished shoving an 8-foot boring machine 347 feet under a lake with nothing to brace against, coming out through the reservoir floor with the water still sitting on top, and the dam above it is now coming down for a rebuild

By Luis Reyes — Jul 31, 2026

An American seabed drone with no cable running back to shore heard submarine drones come through a channel and put them on a Navy screen within seconds, during a six-week exercise across two continents

By Luis Reyes — Jul 31, 2026

A drone boat with no crew has to throw a quadcopter into the air, follow it, watch it hit something, then catch it again on a deck rolling in open sea with nobody standing there to grab it, and America wants one in the water in 29 days

By Luis Reyes — Jul 31, 2026

A 23-foot drone sailboat hit 39.7 mph surfing down a 55-foot wave inside a hurricane, about twenty times its normal cruising speed, and NOAA has 26 more drones parked across the Atlantic waiting for the next one

By Luis Reyes — Jul 30, 2026

A 4,000-ton machine named Partenope has been turning a 44-foot cutting wheel through the hills east of Salerno for 17 months, 18 electric motors pouring 10 megawatts into that one wheel, and nobody outside the site will say how much of the tunnel is left

By Luis Reyes — Jul 30, 2026

A 1,100-ton crane as tall as a 20-story building left Wisconsin standing straight up on a barge and has been under tow ever since, 9,000 nautical miles through the St. Lawrence locks and the Panama Canal, never once lying down

By Luis Reyes — Jul 29, 2026

While America just signed the construction contract for its first stretch of true high-speed track, China says the train it built to carry passengers at 249 mph has cleared its type tests and is halfway through the trial mileage required before anyone boards

By Luis Reyes — Jul 29, 2026

An American drone boat weighing 4,800 pounds just sailed past the missile holes in a 40,000-ton warship off Hawaii and blew a fresh one at the waterline, outweighed by the ship it was attacking roughly 16,000 to one

By Luis Reyes — Jul 29, 2026

The third 3,500-ton borer under Adelaide is the strange one: she digs 1.4 miles north, then crews take her apart, spin a 2,000-ton block of cutterhead and drive around, and rebuild her to come straight back, because a fourth machine costs more

By Luis Reyes — Jul 29, 2026

Italy just started boring the ramp to the world’s longest rail tunnel with one 2,000-ton machine that has to be taken apart and hauled backward through its own hole to dig the second tube

By Luis Reyes — Jul 28, 2026

A 2,050-ton machine named Diggy Scardust is grinding a 39-foot hole under Toronto with 23 million pounds of thrust, three and a half years into a drive specced at 49 feet a day, eight months of which it spent not moving at all

By Luis Reyes — Jul 28, 2026

While America’s 80-ton drone submarine runs on diesel and batteries, the German hydrogen one is built to hold sixteen weeks below without surfacing once, and the first two governments buying it will not say who they are

By Luis Reyes — Jul 28, 2026

A German box on the back of a crewless boat opens in under 30 seconds, throws a drone into the air and catches it again on a deck pitching at 15 knots, guided down by a laser reading the drop to the width of three stacked pennies

By Luis Reyes — Jul 27, 2026

While Germany and Denmark lower 73,500-ton concrete boxes onto the Baltic and watch the schedule slip, Norway is blasting a deeper road under worse rock on time, two roundabouts 820 feet below the sea already carved from the stone

By Luis Reyes — Jul 26, 2026

An American submarine throws its 130,000-pound nuclear missiles, heavier than one and a half loaded semi trucks, out of a bone-dry tube with two inches of clearance per side, and the rocket only fires once the weapon has cleared the sea

By Luis Reyes — Jul 26, 2026

Germany just finished the machine for America’s widest subway tunnel, a 54-foot borer whose motor alone weighs more than 300 tons, and the five-mile San Jose tube it was built to dig is still on the drawing board with no sailing date booked

By Luis Reyes — Jul 25, 2026

While the Pentagon’s 80-ton drone submarine, the size of a subway car, is still officially a minelayer, Turkey unveiled a 17.8-ton one specced to fire the full-size torpedoes of a crewed boat and launch an anti-ship missile from underwater

By Luis Reyes — Jul 25, 2026

The exploding drone boats that rattled Russia’s Black Sea fleet just landed an American factory, 26 feet of hull hauling 1,430 pounds of payload 800 nautical miles on a single tank of fuel, set to be built by the hundred in Oregon

By Luis Reyes — Jul 25, 2026

Britain just ordered the largest boring machine ever put underground in Europe, a 5,500-ton German giant with a cutting face wider than a basketball court, built to dig both Thames tunnels alone and turn around at the far end

By Luis Reyes — Jul 24, 2026
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