Drug smugglers could be targeted by remote-control Royal Navy autonomous vehicles
Drug smugglers heading for British shores could be hunted down by remote-control Royal Navy drone boats. The Navy and Marines are testing a Mad Fox autonomous vehicle with the Border Force to see how it could be best deployed. Its most likely use is that on-board cameras will identify drug smugglers and then, on approaching the criminals, the drone will launch a net to clog the propellers of their boat. The unmanned drone, measuring 41ft and with a maximum speed of 40-plus knots or about 45mph, will be operated from onshore or from a bigger inflatable vessel or ship. Drug smugglers heading fo...
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