NATO special forces are learning to build sea drones. How could they be used?

NATO is expanding its work with sea drones amid rapid advancement in warfare technologies.

Last month, NATO trained its elite soldiers to design, build, and deploy unmanned surface vessels (USVs), which operate on the surface of the water like small boats and can be either fully or partly autonomous. They can also transport soldiers.

The naval drones are designed to conduct reconnaissance and maritime strike missions, according to NATO.

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The special force soldiers are trained in swimming, para-dropping, and shooting and will control the USVs when needed or teach others to control and deploy the drones.

“This is some special skill that only SOF operators can handle,” Massimiliano Rossi, NATO Allied Special Operations Forces Comm