Drones

A maritime and underwater detection system

NATO’s Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation, based in La Spezia, Italy, has revealed an ability it has been working on for quite some time: detecting fast fast boats with two unmanned maritime vehicles. The surveillance system uses two vehicles simultaneously, one above the surface of the water whereas the other one moves underwater. With a passive sonar system, the vehicles have managed to detect small and fast motor boats which usually manage to escape radars, as they are too small and too fast.