The Royal Navy is seeking to use its aircraft carrier programme as an opportunity for industry to demonstrate new maritime unmanned systems technologies, Armada International’s Lee Willet reports.
Speaking at the Defence IQ Surface Warships conference in London on 30 January, RN First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Tony Radakin said his service, together with the Royal Air Force (RAF), “is looking at using HMS Prince of Wales in 2021 as an experimentation platform … with a view to challenging our services and industry as to whether or not we can get large drones flying from the aircraft carrier as a technology demonstrator inside the next five years”.
