Seasats has announced a partnership with Neros Technologies to put Neros' Archer 10-inch Strike and Archer AI FPV drones aboard its Quickfish unmanned surface vessel. The boat's enclosed, modular payload bay can carry up to six Archer drones, giving operators multiple shots from a single vessel and protecting the drones until they are needed. Quickfish is billed as a rapid-response vessel with a 40-knot sprint speed, multi-week endurance at sea, and the ability to handle rough water. It can reportedly be cued by other sensors, reposition to check out a contact, and launch drones, and the companies say it can be flown remotely by satellite link, with sea launches already demonstrated.

Seasats CEO Mike Flanigan says the pairing combines a vessel built to stay on station for weeks with strike capability, so operators can identify and engage threats at sea without putting a crew on the water. The concept pairs a reusable boat with expendable, one-way drones, which the companies pitch as an affordable way to scale up maritime operations. Neros says Archer is built for mass production and without Chinese parts, and the company holds a $500 million Army contract for Archer FPV drones. Customers can contact Seasats for combined boat-and-drone setups, while Archer systems can be bought directly from Neros. The performance claims come from the companies themselves, and it is not yet clear who will buy the combined system or how it will perform in real operations.