Has the War in Ukraine Changed Everything?
- September 01, 2024
In an era of great power competition, unmanned maritime systems have begun to take centre stage
and are now on an accelerated development path for reasons that are clear. Like their air and ground
counterparts, these unmanned maritime systems are valued because of their ability to reduce the risk
to human life in high threat areas, to deliver persistent surveillance over areas of interest, and provide
options to warfighters that derive from the inherent advantages of unmanned technologies. While
development of these technologies was on a solid upward path, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine accelerated
that trajectory.
