Saronic has announced the launch of its first Mirage, a 15.8-metre dual-use autonomous surface vessel (ASV), the latest milestone in a production model aiming to deliver autonomous vessels at speed and scale.
The new vessel joins the 7.3-metre Corsair and 54.9-metre Marauder as the third model in the company’s growing fleet. The launch marks Mirage’s progress from initial design to launch in less than a year and it is now commencing on-water trials at the company’s privately funded test facility in Galveston, Texas. The next hull is already on the production line at its Austin headquarters.
“This cadence is what our production model was built to deliver. With Corsair, Mirage, and Marauder now in full production simultaneously, we are delivering a full family of autonomous surface vessels at the speed and scale that makes real adoption possible,” said Dino Mavrookas, Co-Founder and CEO of Saronic.
Mirage is built to extend the reach and capability of manned and unmanned teams across a range of maritime operations. Featuring a top speed of more than 65 kilometres per hour, a range exceeding 4,630 kilometres, and a payload capacity of 1,587 kilograms, Mirage more than doubles the range and payload capacity of the 7.3-metre Corsair.
Operating fully autonomously or under remote human supervision through the Echelon command-and-control platform, the vessel is designed to support maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and aerial and surface detection missions.
The 15.8-metre ASV runs on the same core autonomy stack that the company has developed for its other vessels. Passive perception and collaborative autonomy capabilities, including navigation, tracking, and detection, are supported by redundant communications and intuitive control interfaces.
Its open, modular architecture enables integration of a range of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and software systems, including mission payloads, sensor packages, and command-and-control systems, without reengineering the underlying platform.
