Elbit Seagull

The Seagull is a multi-role unmanned surface vessel developed and built by the Israeli company Elbit Systems for naval forces. It is a boat about 12 metres long, made of aluminium and composite materials, with removable floats and a dynamic positioning system on the bridge, and it can be run in manned or unmanned mode from a port or a mother ship through a single mission control system that can handle two vessels. Elbit unveiled it at the Singapore Airshow in February 2016, and in March 2016 demonstrated its mine countermeasures role with a multi-beam side-scan sonar during exercises in the Mediterranean. Modular payloads let one hull take on mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, electronic warfare, maritime security and hydrography, including towed sonar such as the KATFISH system from Kraken Sonar, a remote weapon station and torpedo launchers. Two diesel engines drive two propellers and a pair of thrusters, giving a top speed of about 60 kilometres per hour, an endurance of more than four days and a payload of up to 2,500 kilograms.