Maritime Autonomous Vehicles in Europe
Foreign platforms, sovereign underwater programmes and the architecture of a new naval market
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About this report
Europe’s market for maritime autonomous vehicles is no longer a marginal technological niche, but it is not yet a mature or unified defence market.
It is taking shape across several distinct segments: uncrewed surface vehicles for persistent maritime surveillance, autonomous underwater systems for inspection and future combat experimentation, towed sonar chains for mine countermeasures, and integrated underwater-security architectures for the protection of ports, cables, pipelines and seabed infrastructure.
Key questions this report answers
- How is Europe's maritime autonomous-vehicle market taking shape across uncrewed surface vehicles, autonomous underwater systems and towed sonar chains?
- How do these segments serve persistent surveillance, mine countermeasures and combat experimentation?
- How do integrated underwater-security architectures protect ports, cables, pipelines and seabed infrastructure?
- What actors, gaps and constraints prevent the sector from becoming a mature, unified European defence market?
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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