The Royal Navy will use a fleet of drones to transport important supplies between ships during its upcoming mission to the Indo-Pacific for the first time.
This is done to support the UK Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Prince of Wales, set to deploy later this month.
The air group onboard the navy’s flagship vessel will now include nine powerful octocopter drones, along with F35B stealth jets and naval helicopters.
These drones will carry food, engineering parts, and personal packages from home between the ships in the group.
This new system is being tested to reduce the workload on helicopters, which are more expensive to operate. Instead of using helicopters for lighter tasks, they can now focus on protecting the task group from threats during the mission.
The drone operations will be handled by 700X Naval Air Squadron, a specialist team from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose.
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