ADARO
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Man-portable, roughly 3 ft drone boat developed for the US Navy under SBIR funding.
ADARO is a tiny uncrewed boat, about a metre long, that Michigan's SeaLandAire Technologies developed with US Navy small-business research funding. Light enough for one person to carry and launch, it is meant to extend the eyes of special operations teams, bomb-disposal units or Marines along a coastline, sending video and sensor data back over a satellite link. It drew attention in 2021 when it was photographed working with the littoral combat ship USS Oakland in the Navy's large unmanned systems exercise off California.
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SeaLandAire developed ADARO under the Navy's SBIR programme as a man-portable, modular-payload vessel about three feet long for special operators, EOD technicians or Marines. In 2020 the Navy selected Get SAT's L-band electronically steered antenna for its beyond-line-of-sight control and ISR data link. It operated alongside USS Oakland during Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 off Southern California in April 2021. A 2024 Navy SBIR Phase I award targets lower unit cost. Length is approximate.
