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Navy/USMC

5th Fleet Commander Details 100 USV Middle East Plan For 2023

Friday, October 14th, 2022

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5th Fleet Commander Details 100 USV Middle East Plan For 2023

A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel sails in the Gulf of Aqaba on on Feb. 9, 2022 during International Maritime Exercise/Cutlass Express 2022, the largest multinational training event in the Middle East. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dawson Roth)

The commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet recently detailed how the U.S. Navy and its allies in the Middle East are planning to collectively have 100 unmanned surface vessels (USVs) operating in the region by next summer. “Our goal is that…at the end of the summer of 2023, we will have grown to a hundred USVs throughout the Middle East. And I think a critical point of this is probably to describe what that looks like: about 20 percent of…

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