{"id":260624,"date":"2026-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/us-uk-and-australia-to-develop-underwater-drone-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:20:31","slug":"us-uk-and-australia-to-develop-underwater-drone-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/us-uk-and-australia-to-develop-underwater-drone-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drone technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/259153.html\">US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drone technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/259153.html\">https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/259153.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.azernews.az\">www.azernews.az<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States (US), the United Kingdom, and Australia will<br \/>\ndevelop underwater drone technology within the AUKUS military<br \/>\nalliance to protect submarine cables and strengthen defense,<br \/>\n<strong>AzerNEWS<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The defense ministers of the mentioned countries announced this<br \/>\nat a security summit held in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV)<br \/>\ntechnology is expected to be ready by next year. Although the total<br \/>\ncost of the project was not disclosed, UK Defense Secretary John<br \/>\nHealey stated that his country would contribute \u00a3150 million (USD<br \/>\n201 million).<\/p>\n<p>The joint statement emphasized that, under the new project,<br \/>\nadvanced payloads and capability systems will be developed for UUVs<br \/>\ncapable of protecting seabed infrastructure, carrying out strikes,<br \/>\nsurveillance, reconnaissance, and logistics operations.<\/p>\n<p>Healey also noted that sensors and weapon systems for UUVs will<br \/>\nbe created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we are to serve you with news right now. It does not cost much, but worth your attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Choose to support open, independent, quality journalism and subscribe on a monthly basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By subscribing to our online newspaper, you can have full digital access to all news, analysis, and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe\n            <\/p>\n<p>You can also follow AzerNEWS on Twitter @AzerNewsAz or Facebook @AzerNewsNewspaper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/259153.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drone technology https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/259153.html Publish Date: 2026-06-01 00:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/media\/2026\/05\/31\/17802020912709252538_1200x630_1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-260624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260626,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260624\/revisions\/260626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}