Australian shipbuilder Austal has completed sea acceptance and endurance trials for the government-funded Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial (PBAT), the company announced on 23 April. The remote and autonomous navigation trials used a testbed – the decommissioned Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Armidale-class patrol boat HMAS Maitland (renamed Sentinel) – and were conducted off the Western Australian coastline […]
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