
The U.S. 4th Fleet deployed 10 Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) via commercial operators on Sept. 14 as part of a fleet operation. The Navy said these USVs are part of the fleet’s Operation Windward Stack, a long-term operation that will consist of unmanned and manned forces working together as a hybrid fleet. The operation itself is a part of the 4th Fleet’s unmanned integration campaign that seeks to use the fleet’s region to experiment with and operate unmanned…