Whereas DARPA had been engaged on the NOMARS program since 2020, particulars concerning the particular vessel have been restricted till its latest look.
A sighting of the Defiant being towed by way of Saratoga Passage in Puget Sound close to Seattle sparked preliminary public curiosity and hypothesis.
On Tuesday (4 Mar), DARPA confirmed that building of the prototype unmanned floor vessel (USV) was accomplished in February 2025, including “USX-1 Defiant has formally launched.”
They stated: “Defiant is a 180’, 240-metric-ton lightship that can bear intensive in-water testing, each dockside and at sea. She is scheduled to depart for a multi-month at sea demonstration in spring 2025.”
The NOMARS program goals to problem the standard naval structure mannequin, by designing a seaframe (the ship with out mission methods) from the bottom up with no provision, allowance, or expectation for people on board.
DARPA stated: “By eradicating the human aspect from all ship design concerns, this system intends to reveal vital benefits, to incorporate: measurement, value, at-sea reliability, larger hydrodynamic effectivity, survivability to sea-state, and survivability to adversary actions by way of stealth concerns and tampering resistance.”
Division of Protection might now scale manufacturing of NOMARS to effectively and cost-effectively ship a distributed USV fleet.
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