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A 340-pound drone boat covered in solar panels was launched off the Texas coast into the Gulf to park itself for six months and watch for drug boats at 2 knots, after 10 of them anchored on the Rio Grande helped agents catch 350 people a month since January

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 17, 2026

An 18,750-ton submarine, the biggest America ever built, came home for the last time after firing in the strikes on Iran, and the week she tied up the Navy signed for nine attack submarines that haul 40 cruise missiles apiece, four of them to match the 154 she carried alone

By Luis Reyes — Oct 16, 2026

A 1,500-pound drone sailboat sailed straight into a Category 3 hurricane 150 miles off Pensacola, crossed the eye through 65-foot waves and 103-mph gusts with its pilots in a California control room, and came out floating, hours before the storm cut power to 700,000 homes

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 16, 2026

An Australian ground drone built to haul a 20-foot shipping container clamped to its deck carries 22,000 pounds, nearly seven times the load of the biggest one Ukraine sends to the front, and can park beside a field hospital and keep it running off a 110-kilowatt-hour battery

By Luis Reyes — Oct 16, 2026

A 9,138-ton nuclear attack submarine smashed her sonar dome and forward ballast tanks into an undersea mountain nobody had charted, limped home on the surface, and has sat on blocks in a Washington dry dock ever since, waiting for a nose the Navy has to build from scratch

By Luis Reyes — Oct 16, 2026

A 145-ton drone ship with nobody aboard is crossing the Pacific with a 1,092-foot aircraft carrier headed to relieve the one backing operations against Iran, the first strike group ever to sail with a crewless escort, and it has to keep pace for months without a mechanic

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 15, 2026

A 4,800-pound American drone boat opens one of four cases on its deck by remote, and the FPV drone inside is out over the water in about a second, flying on a fiber-optic line that carries its video and controls, the setup Ukrainian pilots use to fly through jamming

By Luis Reyes — Oct 14, 2026

A 200-pound Iron Dome interceptor made to stop rockets fired from up to 43 miles away came off an Arkansas line fully built for the first time, after more than a decade of its American parts going overseas for final assembly, and the plant plans a version for the Marines

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 14, 2026

An American hypersonic missile left a shipping-container-style box on the back of a military truck in the first photo of its ground version, and the Army wants it firing from the same pods HIMARS loads, with the Pentagon ready to buy at least 500 a year once testing ends

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 14, 2026

A 24-foot American drone boat came to Panama for an 11-day exercise and never left, and it now patrols the coast for drug runners next to Panama’s coast guard, carrying radar and cameras, topping 40 mph and running more than 1,000 nautical miles on diesel

By Luis Reyes — Oct 12, 2026

A 145-ton American drone ship built to trail a submarine for three months steered itself more than 2,000 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, and when the Navy ordered 30 drone ships a few weeks later, the company behind it was not one of the three picked

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Oct 11, 2026

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
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