Sailors, schmailors: Navy tests uncrewed marine drones on 5,000-mile missions - DroneDJ

The Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) revealed this week it had completed the second successful autonomous sailing of an uncrewed ship on missions of 4,421-nautical miles. That’s more than 5,100 land miles, if you please. The routes that the baptized RANGER and NOMAD craft took began in the Gulf Coast, and ended on the West Coast by way of the Panama Canal – virtually the only leg of those journeys operated in manual mode.