WATCH: World’s first USV airdrop completed using military transport aircraft
A 'world-first' capability demonstration has seen an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) airdropped from a military transport aircraft, proving a new method for rapidly deploying maritime systems into contested or difficult-to-access operating e…
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Kraken Technology Group and Capewell, supported by the Royal Navy under Project Beehive, have successfully completed the world's first extracted-load airdrop of an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) from an A400M military transport aircraft.
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