The British manufacturer Craft subsea He has presented his new sea drone or UASacronym in English of non -manned surface vehicle. It’s about Mars (Maritime Autonomous Recognition System), an UAS that the manufacturer describes as ‘Adaptable’, ‘Scalable’ and ‘Letal’it can cover a variety of types of missions and has been designed to respond to the operational demands of the current and future maritime war. The most striking of Mars is that Subsea Craft has been able to design it, prototyp it and try it in the sea in just 100 days.
The Ukraine War The importance of drones in war conflicts has been clearly clear. Not only air and terrestrial drones, but also the maritime, who have wreaked havoc on Russian naval forces in the Black Sea and that this last weekend have achieved a historical milestone: knock down, for the first time, Combat fighters. Two Su-30 Russians.
Ukraine, who has also managed to sink large Russian warships with his naval drones, has demonstrated The strategic value of these low -cost and disposable platformscapable of executing high -risk missions in situations where the deployment of manned media would be too dangerous.
This operational context has promoted companies such as Craft Subsea to develop scalable USV, specifically designed for Attend urgent tactical needs, with versatile capabilities and rapid availability.
This is the maritime drone
The Mars is designed to be deployed from medium or large surface platforms, Combining a low firm, which makes detection difficult, with high speed. Its scope of operation covers from open sea areas to coastal areas and interior river roads, which makes it a vessel that can operate without interruptions in varied maritime environments. Another capacity is to act as Autonomous or integrated in Man-Machine Cooperation Schemes (MUM-T)offering scalable and multimission capabilities adapted to modern naval scenarios.
Thus, the Mars platform can meet a wide range of missions: Surveillance of maritime domain, persistent intelligence, recognition and surveillance (ISR), operations against unmanned systems (UXS) and full spectrum Istar operations. Thanks to its digital architecture of open control -dedicated from the victor a variety of modular useful loads, both kinetic and non -kinetic.
It should be noted that the Mars has been designed, built and tested in the water In just over three monthswhich accounts for the agility of the Craft Subsea Engineering process. Manufactured in the United Kingdom, the platform has already been Subjected to field tests in Australia -In collaboration with the Australian Maritime College- and has been evaluated with useful loads developed in the US.
‘Mars has become a disruptive force in the modern battle space. The success of his evidence, after an impressive change of course since his conception, demonstrates the avant -garde approach of Subsea Craft to accelerate research, development and delivery, ‘says Penny Mordount, president of Subsea Craft and former secretary of the United Kingdom Defense Statement, in a statement.
Subsea Craft plans to show the Mars platform in the main defense fairs of 2025, including Sof Week In tampa, Defea in Athens and Dsei In London. These events will allow the defense sector to evaluate first -hand the capabilities of the Mars and its potential.