U.S. Navy Sends 20 Saildrones to Surveil Drug Smuggling Corridors

The U.S. Navy has reached an agreement with Saildrone to double the number of long-range unmanned vessels deployed on a surveillance mission in the drug transit zones of the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean, the California-based company announced Monday. 

The firm said that 20 Saildrone Voyager USVs will be sent south to help combat the maritime flow of drugs to the United States. The new Saildrones will be equipped with an upg…