US 70-Knot Squire Seaglider Drone Sends New Orders to a Submerged Underwater Drone in AUKUS Exercise

REGENT and NSI used the Squire Seaglider to send updated mission orders to NSI’s submerged Arowana vehicle during the AUKUS Maritime Big Play Pacific exercise off San Clemente Island, California. Squire, an uncrewed wing-in-ground-effect craft designed for speeds up to 70 knots, acted as a mobile communications gateway while Arowana travelled toward a simulated high-value target. The demonstration also exercised transfers of control across uncrewed systems and showed that operators could redirect Arowana without surfacing it, although the companies did not disclose the communications method used for the underwater link.