Sweden’s defense procurement agency announced on October 22 that the country’s navy will use four unmanned vessels supplied by a private U.S. company and operated by U.S. personnel to monitor the Baltic Sea. The one-year service contract is intended to expand maritime surveillance coverage and free up crewed ships for other missions.
  • LewdLemon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Hello, Sweden. You do know the U.S. dances to the Kremlin’s tune now, right? If Putin doesn’t want you to get intel on Russian activities in the Baltics, he’ll call Tangerine Mussolini and tell him to put a leash on the company.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    If sail-based drones become a major thing, brings back sail, a line chart of registered sail-powered vessels for the past couple hundred years is gonna look amusing.