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A 2,050-ton World War II destroyer is ready to sail home to Baton Rouge, but she can only float back into her riverbank cradle with the Mississippi at 32 feet, a line the river now sits nearly 20 feet below, and the last time it got that high she was sitting in dry dock

By Luis Reyes — Oct 11, 2026

A 55-pound American drone built to be launched by hand off a pier found practice mines for the Navy, held itself within 6.5 feet of each in a 2-knot current until an operator said go, and came out one of three winners among 80 companies

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 11, 2026

A 1,526-ton submarine sat on blocks in a drained Wisconsin dry dock all summer, out of the water for the first time in 72 years, and gave up a flood valve stamped for her sister sub, lost with all hands in the war, before her tow back across Lake Michigan this month

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 10, 2026

An 85-ton American patrol boat ran at the head of a pack of drone boats in Michigan, sent drone aircraft up and took one back aboard while still moving, on a hull that draws less than 5 feet of water and tops 40 mph on two waterjets

By Luis Reyes — Oct 10, 2026

A 19,800-pound American drone boat spent two weeks running around the clock in an Australian port and can watch one patch of ocean for 23 days on 790 gallons of diesel, from a hull 37 feet long that fits inside a 40-foot shipping container

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 9, 2026

A 2,017-ton German submarine surfaced off the tip of Scotland so British commandos could ride inflatable boats ashore, climb the cliffs and aim a 401-foot Portuguese frigate’s gun at targets inland, a level of coordination their unit had not managed in nearly 30 years

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 9, 2026

A 5,500-pound British drone boat went to sea carrying a 330-pound radar that spins a full circle every second hunting drones lighter than a milk carton out to 2.5 miles, because a drone skimming the waves stays under a ship’s own radar until it is already close

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 9, 2026

An 18,750-ton American missile submarine came through Puget Sound and moored in Washington the same day its sister submarine arrived in Georgia, the boats swapped home ports after 30 and 24 years on their old coasts, and the sailors stayed put and took over each other’s boat

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 8, 2026

A 15,800-ton, 453-foot French submarine pushed a ballistic missile weighing more than 110,000 pounds out of one of its 16 tubes from under the Atlantic off Brittany after 18 months in dry dock, and the only other flight of this version took off from a pad on land

By Luis Reyes — Oct 8, 2026

A 56-foot British drone boat built to carry 8,818 pounds in a 20-foot shipping-container slot spent September off Portugal catching what sonobuoys radio back, a job a patrol aircraft burns flight hours circling to do, and the Royal Navy has already bought a second receiver

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 7, 2026

A force of more than 60 drone boats and aircraft staged a simulated attack on a 3,660-ton frigate at night, while 20–30 uncrewed escorts defended it and nine separate command systems shared a network for coordinating the exercise

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 6, 2026

A 45,000-ton battleship was pushed four feet off her pier in Norfolk by tugboats without starting an engine, her first move in 26 years, so crews could swap two rubber fenders, and the second one came out with the ship’s paint stuck to it after a year of planning

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 6, 2026

A 39.4-foot drone submarine turned up at a NATO exercise in Portugal carrying a rig whose only job is rehearsing a payload drop, with nothing live leaving the hull while engineers read the telemetry, and the US Navy has already taken delivery of the same long version

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 6, 2026

A 23-foot drone boat fired a winged kamikaze drone out of a launcher on its deck at a NATO exercise, the aircraft popped its wings open and streamed live video into the Spanish fleet’s combat software on the way to its target, and nobody was aboard the boat or the aircraft

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 5, 2026

A 24-pound mini-torpedo built to disable hostile underwater drones was tested with an airborne carrier drone at a NATO exercise in Portugal, and the 3.3-foot weapon hunts by pinging like a bat, because electric drones run too quiet for a passive listener to hear

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 5, 2026

An 18-foot drone boat ran into a surface target off Turkey and set off a live 220-pound warhead for the first time, after trials with an inert lump bolted in where the bomb goes, and the target was picked out for it by a drone aircraft flying its own first navy exercise

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 3, 2026

An 8,157-ton nuclear attack submarine needed four tugboats lashed to her sides to get out of the English shipyard that spent 13 years building her, threading two docks and a sharp turn before the open channel, and the fleet she joins hadn’t put one to sea in four months

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 3, 2026

A 1,092-foot nuclear aircraft carrier moved from her pier in Norfolk to the shipyard that built her, starting a five-year overhaul where the yard cuts through the hull to swap the reactor cores, the only refueling she gets in a service life built to run past 50 years

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 3, 2026

A 180-foot drone ship spent eight days at sea clearing more than 140 Navy test scenarios without a failure, sailing 414 miles on a single push of a button with every tanker and fishing boat dodged on its own — and the Navy is now buying 30 drone ships from three builders

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 2, 2026

A 13,600-pound gun that finds a missile, decides to shoot and judges the kill on its own is the last layer of a US destroyer’s defenses, with a 1,550-round drum that lasts about 20 seconds at full rate — and new Navy footage shows one practicing its aim in the Indian Ocean

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 1, 2026

A 39-foot drone boat from a German startup, built to carry 10 attack drones and four anti-ship missiles, launched its drones during a NATO exercise off Portugal, and its 20-foot sister boat in German military hands carries nothing that shoots

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 1, 2026

A 38-pound underwater drone holds still against the current on seven thrusters, fires a demolition charge into a sea mine hard enough to stick, then backs away paying out the firing line — everything comes home except the charge, and Ukraine has already used it in combat

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 30, 2026

An 18-foot Polish drone boat that weighs about 1,430 pounds, runs 24 hours on an outboard and tops out near 30 knots comes in two shapes, a tall one with radar and sonar on a mast and a low one cut down to stay out of sight for strike missions

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 30, 2026

An underwater drone that goes into the sea from a box lowered by a hovering helicopter is flown to the mine by hand through a fiber-optic thread, because radio dies in seawater — and the Navy has penciled in up to 668 of a drone that never comes back

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 29, 2026

A 151-foot drone ship built keel-up in a Louisiana yard just got flipped upright by cranes, its frames, bulkheads and plating complete, and the deck and pilothouse go on next — while a second yard down the coast builds the fifth hull of the run

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 29, 2026

A 155-pound underwater drone that hunts sea mines for the Australian navy is built to skip the six-hour recharge: two sailors pull its battery and the 1-terabyte memory that processes the sonar while it swims, slide in loaded spares, and send it back under in 30 minutes

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 28, 2026

A 453-foot submarine stretched by a 100-foot section spliced into its middle has worked as the US Navy’s only special warfare support boat for 21 years, carrying divers, robots and cable-handling gear, and its replacement just surfaced in a shipyard job listing

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 27, 2026

A 110-pound underwater drone built to be used exactly once tilts its shaped-charge head onto a sea mine and goes up with it, steered from outside the minefield by an operator who reaches for the next one in the rack, and Ukraine is getting three boatloads

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 27, 2026

A 54,000-pound twin-rotor special operations helicopter set down on a self-driving drone barge holding position with nobody aboard, took on supplies right on deck, and the landing is the first of its kind the American public has been told about

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 26, 2026

A 115-pound underwater drone runs like a torpedo on two tail thrusters and spins a third pointing straight down to stop and hover over anything shaped like a mine, and the Spanish Navy launches the 5.2-foot machine from small boats so a diver doesn’t have to go down first

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 26, 2026

Nineteen 154-pound underwater drone gliders with no propellers flew at once off Portugal in NATO’s biggest uncrewed naval exercise, hunting submarines by listening, and a bigger 377-pound glider dragged a line of hydrophones through the water behind it

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 25, 2026

A 49-foot drone boat, the first the Turkish navy ever commissioned, laid a training version of a smart seabed mine once under remote control and once fully on its own, and the live mine waits on the bottom at up to 328 feet for a ship’s sound, magnetism and pressure

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 25, 2026

An 8-foot delta-wing drone built as America’s copy of Iran’s Shahed drifted in the Gulf off Florida for two days with a mahi-mahi sheltering under it, until a charter crew mistook it for a capsized boat, hauled it in, and got a call asking for the drone back

By Luis Reyes — Sep 24, 2026

A 65-foot drone ship that maps the seafloor partly under sail, with no engine room rumbling through the hull, returned soundings a university team rated as good as any survey ship’s, and the US Navy has now pointed it at the open Atlantic for a year

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 23, 2026

A 23-foot American drone sailboat that rides the wind on a 15-foot rigid wing turned up burning in an Iranian video at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and four days later a US drone put two missiles into boats grabbing at another Navy surface drone

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 23, 2026

While Britain introduced its first drone submarine as a demonstrator that would not perform operational duties, the 39-foot boat fired a heavyweight torpedo in UK waters 16 months later, the first launched from an uncrewed submarine by Britain or the US

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 22, 2026

An 8-foot drone boat drawing 4 inches of water spent a week driving into breaking surf on purpose for an Army lab in North Carolina, because the churned-up strip where waves fold over is the gap in the charts that survey boats and divers both stay out of

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 22, 2026

A 110-inch drone boat weighing 455 pounds empty spent two weeks off a California beach hunting mock mines the Marines built for it, and it carries sonar and an infrared camera up to 250 nautical miles on a tank of no more than 30 gallons

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 21, 2026

While the US Navy cuts the reactor block out of its old nuclear submarines and buries it whole in a desert trench, Britain has cut 2,695 tons off a 272-foot Cold War attack submarine in a Scottish dry dock, taking one fully apart for the first time anywhere

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 20, 2026

A 10-foot electric drone on eight wheels carries 2,200 pounds of a Marine squad’s water, ammunition and batteries, close to its own 2,500-pound weight, and the Marines are buying 12 more of them plus five kits that let it swim, where its load drops to 660 pounds

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 18, 2026

A German drone submarine 13.8 feet long and 882 pounds is built to fit a standard torpedo tube, swim four days on a 42-kWh battery and sit on the seabed listening for weeks, rated for the same 19,685 feet as the three-ton American one Iran hauled in

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 17, 2026

A German drone with an 8-foot manta-ray wingspan flaps over real defused bombs on a Baltic test range and picks up metal buried 20 inches in the mud, while 1.8 million tons of war munitions rust off Germany

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 16, 2026

A 24-foot British navy drone boat put a gouge in the stern of a 55-foot racing yacht inside Portsmouth Harbour, and seven of them still run there day and night, driven from a control room on shore under a rule that says keep 650 feet clear where possible

By Luis Reyes — Sep 14, 2026

A 26-foot Turkish drone boat that carries 551 pounds of explosive in its bow and hits by ramming went into the water for the first time at a naval yard on the Sea of Marmara, does 50 knots on a gasoline waterjet, and 40 of them are already on order

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 14, 2026

A 23-foot Ukrainian drone boat with a .50-caliber machine gun on a Norwegian remote mount ran down a Russian drone boat in the Black Sea, shot its antennas off from 3,300 feet so nobody could steer it clear, then sank it at close range, the first drone boat killed by another

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 14, 2026

A 19-foot American drone submarine rated for 19,700 feet sat dead in the water for more than a day at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, where the bottom runs 200 to 330 feet, until Iranian naval forces hauled it in, and the man who built it posted “rest in peace, little buddy”

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 13, 2026

A 36-foot British drone gunboat trades a towed sonar array for a strike package on the same deck in minutes, tops out at 50 knots on two diesels, runs 1,000 nautical miles at 30 and stays out a month, and an American company is setting up to build it on US soil

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 10, 2026

A UK company just showed a drone boat that takes loitering munitions, mini torpedoes, drones or sonobuoys as cassettes two people exchange in the field without touching the hull, and it says an Anduril ALTIUS has already gone out of one

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 9, 2026

A 17-foot aluminum drone boat that weighs 1,450 pounds empty and 1,900 with everything aboard ran two straight weeks of a Navy electronic-warfare exercise in Michigan with its aerial drones sealed inside the hull, and one operator is trained to run it in three days

By Luis Reyes — Sep 8, 2026

A drone boat that runs 930 miles carrying 4,400 pounds drove under an 899-foot tanker off Yalta and put its charge at the stern, where the engines are, while Russian aircraft dropped bombs at it and missed, and the oil stayed inside the tanks

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 8, 2026
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