A week-long exercise integrating multiple uncrewed systems with Wildcat helicopters, Royal Marines and ship commanders has demonstrated that long-range drone network operations are ready for Royal Navy use now – and signals the next phase of UK hybrid maritime capability development. The Royal Navy has completed a landmark series of trials demonstrating that multiple uncrewed aerial and surface systems can operate seamlessly alongside traditional crewed air and sea platforms over considerable distances, bringing the Hybrid Navy concept materially closer to operational reality. Exercise Dragon Rider, conducted by the Maritime Aviation Strike Operational Advantage Group across more than 200 miles of…
