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Posted by Ralph Wood on November 8, 2026, 05:49, in reply to "Re: Navy USVs come in all sizes..."
The company blurb for Seahawk:
https://www.leidos.com/insights/leidos-autonomy-earns-its-place-rimpac-and-carrier-strike-group
An article on its deployment:
https://insidedefense.com/insider/seahawk-usv-deployed-alongside-roosevelt-carrier-strike-group-cao-confirms
As you can see, it's performing "exciting stuff," like...navigation! However, this has to work and be understood before weapons get put on, and these get turned loose into the fleet. In "crawl, walk, run," this is crawl. What's coming up with the production platforms is walk. 
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Deleting "lightbox/" got me a 404 error. Worth the try, though, thank you.
Seahawk is a one-off, derived from Seahunter. An article notes it is now considered operational, so they've sent it off with the Theodore Roosevelt group. This is all "pioneer" stuff, such that when the production vessels roll in, the working fleet is not completely at square one on working with USVs. Seahunter, Seahawk and Ghost Fleet Overlord have spent recent years making this move to production vessels better informed, so likely to be more successful. This has "been predicted," and been in the works for some time. Now, we're going to see "the roll out," and start to see the Navy get familiarized with these. Hopefully, by the middle of next decade these will be so routine, nobody will be all that excited by them. "Yeah-yeah. Another USV. Woohoo..." Previous Message
Sorry, the images are cutting out on you, that's the first time we've heard of that happening. You might try deleting the "lightbox/" at the end of the link which will take them out of fullscreen display mode.
By the way, the larger USVs accompanying Theodore Roosevelt on its current deployment are 140-foot Leidos Seahawks, autonomous Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vessels (MDUSV). Apparently they're too big to be stowed aboard and sail independently with periodic refueling from destroyers or other ships in the group.
Yes, USVRON-3 was established in May 2024 so operational to some degree for a couple years at least. Vanguard (OUSV-3) is still fitting out at Austal but will join the squadron once completed (like a lot of new ships joining the Navy, being in thw water and actually being operational takes a while.)
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