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A 38-foot drone boat that once spent 192 hours alone at sea came up behind a float towed by a Navy ship off Virginia, pushed a fuel probe into it, took on 400 gallons over dozens of hookups and let go each time, and somebody was steering the probe on ever - autonocion.com

Published by Autonocion.com 6 September 2026 at 23:30
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A 38-foot drone boat that once spent 192 hours alone at sea came up behind a float towed by a Navy ship off Virginia, pushed a fuel probe into it, took on 400 gallons over dozens of hookups and let go each time, and somebody was steering the probe on ever - autonocion.com
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The Navy has spent a couple of years selling drone boats on endurance. Eight days at sea, 400 nautical miles offshore, nobody aboard and no chase boat behind.

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