Marauder Context

Market context

180-foot autonomous surface vessel: large logistics and payload-deployment platform for complex maritime environments.

  • Target environment: Open-water naval and distributed maritime defence operations.
  • Workflow context: Maritime autonomy, domain awareness, payload carriage and uncrewed naval operations.
  • Deployment model: Defence-operated large USV intended for autonomous maritime missions at larger vessel scale.
  • Commercial maturity: Publicly announced development and manufacturing program tied to Saronic's Louisiana shipyard expansion.
  • Adoption constraints: Requires shipyard production, naval integration, mission payloads, autonomy validation and regulatory clearance for uncrewed operations.
  • Market position: Ship-scale autonomous surface vessel program that expands Saronic from small USVs into larger uncrewed naval systems.
  • Adjacent products: Large defence USV for maritime autonomy, payload carriage and distributed naval operations.

Specifications

  • Range: Range 5400 nautical miles at 25-tonne base load; 4100 nautical miles at 150-tonne max load
  • Features: iso container 40ft: 4 count; iso container 20ft: 8 count
  • Dimensions: length: 54.86 m / 180 ft
  • Cruising Speed Mps: 6.17 m/s
  • Max Speed Knots: Sprint speed 25+ knots
  • Payload capacity: 150000 kg (150 metric tonnes)
  • Core Functions: autonomous surface vessel; logistics; heavy payload

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