Facts

• Company: Saronic
• Product type: Usv
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.saronic.com/vessels

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Corsair is Saronic 24-foot autonomous surface vessel for defense and maritime security. It supports reconnaissance, domain awareness, interdiction support and utility missions where operators need a compact unmanned boat with speed and payload flexibility.

Overview

Corsair is Saronic 24-foot autonomous surface vessel for defense and maritime security. It supports reconnaissance, domain awareness, interdiction support and utility missions where operators need a compact unmanned boat with speed and payload flexibility.

Market context

24-foot autonomous surface vessel: modular multi-mission maritime platform for rapid deployment across defense maritime missions.

• Target environment: Littoral, coastal and open-water defence environments.
• Workflow context: Autonomous navigation, maritime domain awareness, payload carriage and uncrewed surface operations.
• Deployment model: Defence-operated USV for autonomous patrol, sensing and distributed maritime missions.
• Commercial maturity: Public product in Saronic's USV family.
• Adoption constraints: Requires maritime autonomy validation, payload integration, command links and naval operating concepts.
• Market position: Larger operational USV in Saronic's fleet for autonomous maritime defence missions.
• Adjacent products: Autonomous surface vessel for distributed naval sensing, patrol and payload operations.

Audience

Defense

Workflow

Autonomous navigation, maritime domain awareness, payload carriage and uncrewed surface operations.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Littoral, coastal and open-water defence environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Defense
• Workflow: Autonomous navigation, maritime domain awareness, payload carriage and uncrewed surface operations.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Littoral, coastal and open-water defence environments.

Specifications

• Range: 1,852 km km
• Length: 7.32 m / 24 ft
• Payload Capacity Kg: 453.59 kg
• Max Speed Mps: 18.01 m/s

Tags

• Peer Group: Maritime USV
• Workflow: Maritime domain awareness
• Capability: Autonomous navigation
• Deployment Environment: Defence operational environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Articles

• 2026-05-18 - Article - Saronic is building the industrial stack around autonomous ships

Timeline / Research

• 2026-02-03 - Demonstration - Saronic completes multi-day Corsair deployment with 24/7 operations - Saronic said it completed a week-long continuous test operation designed to push Corsair, its 24-foot autonomous surface…
• 2025-12-08 - Contract Award - Saronic receives $392M Navy contract for Corsair autonomous vessels - The award is a major production signal for Saronic's autonomous surface-vessel line.
• 2024-10-23 - Product Launch - Saronic unveils Corsair autonomous surface vessel - Corsair was introduced as Saronic''s third ASV model and the largest vessel in its line at the time.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Contract Value Usd - $392 million - 2025-12-08 - U.S. Navy - autonomous surface vessels - Saronic received a $392 million U.S. Navy contract for Corsair autonomous vessels.

Comparable Systems

• Mirage - Saronic - Usv
• Quickfish - Seasats - Usv
• Voyager - Saildrone - Uncrewed Surface Vehicle