South Korea’s HD Hyundai Tests Autonomous Warship in U.S.

South Korea’s HD Hyundai and U.S. defense company Anduril Industries demonstrated autonomous operations aboard an unmanned surface vessel off Long Beach, California. The roughly three-and-a-half-hour trial tested autonomous navigation, mission changes, coordinated formation operations and responses to equipment failures. The 368-ton test vessel had previously been operated by the U.S. Navy. It used HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering’s VAone autonomy solution integrated with Anduril’s Lattice mission software. The firms say the demonstration advances their naval plans in the U.S.