Sailors assigned to the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division 32 are at the forefront of the Navy's fleet during Exercise Baltic Operation, delivering realistic counter-unmanned surface vessel training against unmanned vessels to NATO allies.
Unmanned vessels are a force multiplier at a time when crewed ships and the number of sailors are stretched thin.
A speedboat drone that helped rescue two U.S. service members marked a milestone for a Navy task force that has been experimenting with crewless vessels.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied Tuesday that Iran has “kamikaze dolphins.” But Hegseth did not rule out that the U.S. military has them. The U.S. Navy, in fact, does have a Marine Mammal Program that trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to “detect, locate, mark and recover objects” in harbors, coastal areas and at depth in the open sea. The Navy has trained dolphins and sea lions since 1959, with the Marine Mammal Program homeported at Naval Base Point Loma since the 1960s. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Reconnaissance and Interdiction Division manages the program. #straitofhormuz #hegseth #iran
Separate from the regular Iranian Navy, with boats that often go more than 115 miles per hour, it’s what a retired U.S. official calls a “disruptive force.”
A new pattern of deceptive activity by some vessels around the critical waterway suggests the new American blockade is changing how some ships linked to Iran are behaving.
The test involving a Razorback sea drone demonstrated that American unmanned systems can be operated from an allied submarine.
Stopping Iran’s production of drones is critical to opening the Strait of Hormuz and halting its attacks on Gulf nations. But can it be done?
Published March 13, 2025 Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil transit route between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, have dramatically escalated as several commercial vessels have been struck in [...]
There's "growing momentum to establish a naval protection system" in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran's military escalates attacks on commercial ships, Eurasia Group says. The big picture: U.S. Central Command warned "the Iranian regime is using civilian ports along the Strait of Hormuz to conduct military operations that threaten international shipping" and put lives at risk. - Officials reported at least five cargo vessels were hit in the region Wednesday. - At least four seafarers have been killed after two missiles struck a UAE-flagged tugboat that was last week trying to help an stranded container ship north of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, officials said . State of play: Nations are scrambling to get barrels moving. - Eurasia…