DARPA has launched a new prototype warship for the US Navy that not only won't need any sailors, it can't even accommodate ...

This spring, the Defiant will embark upon a multi-month demonstration that will test the craft’s autonomy, endurance, and ...

What's new in the Navy? Unmanned surface vessels, that's what. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Serco have launched the 180-foot USX-1 Defiant prototype, and sea trials will ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has achieved a major milestone in maritime innovation by ...

The prototype vessel for the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, USX-1 Defiant, has been launched and is undergoing sea trials. The 180’, 240-metric-ton unmanned surface vessel (USV) was ...

The USX-1 Defiant was being pushed by tug boat earlier this week through the Saratoga Passage in Puget Sound, just a few miles from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Station Whidby Island, according to ...

A mysterious U.S. robo-warship able to spend months at sea without humans has been unveiled. The USX-1 Defiant was officially ...

The first prototype in the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program will begin a multimonth, at-sea testing period this spring after the vessel's construction concluded in February, according to a ...

The Defiant may have a role in the U.S. Navy’s drone ‘hellscape’ to help defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression ...

There are, of course, downside risks to a fully automated system like the USX-1 Defiant. Something as simple as a busted engine or broken control system that would require human engineers to ...