Navy to Deploy Thousands of Unmanned Surface Vessels to the Indo-Pacific by 2030

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Navy is looking to field thousands of unmanned surface vessels to the Indo-Pacific by 2030, according to the service’s drone boat development group. “By 2030, expect to see over 30 Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (MUSV) just in the Indo-Pacific. Expect to see thousands of small USVs, and then you know, any number of [unmanned aerial systems] that are operating from either manned ships or unmanned ships,” Capt. Garrett Miller, the commander of Surface Development Group One, said Monday during a panel at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Symposium. According to Miller, these numbers are based