The Russian Federation has developed a modular crew-less boat "Vodyany"

A universal unmanned surface platform of small displacement has been developed at the Baltic Higher Naval School named after F.F. Ushakov, sources in the military department told Izvestia. The device, codenamed Vodyany, was presented at the innovation day of the Ministry of Defense at the school.

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The body of the unmanned platform is assembled from separate compartments with the ability to select the desired configuration. The device can be made in one of two versions: a small displacement, 2.5 m long and capable of carrying 40 kg of payload, and an ultra-small displacement with a length of 1.4 m and a load capacity of 6.5 kg.

Such boats can be used to create control zones in the Baltic Sea, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

"If you deploy a large number of boats with sonar stations, you can get information about underwater objects in the water column: submarines or saboteurs. It is possible to control a significant water area without significant efforts of the ship's personnel," he said.

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"Vodyany" code: a modular crew-less boat has been developed in the Russian Federation