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The US Marines no longer just land on the beach — now they first send forward a swarm of small underwater robots that scout everything for them. At Camp Pendleton in California, soldiers of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) gained practical experience working with the new unmanned underwater vehicles JaiaBot for the first time. The exercises took place on August 5, 2025, along the coast of Southern California — right in real conditions, not in a classroom.
What are these drones doing? JaiaBot are small, autonomous underwater robots that swim by themselves, scan the bottom, measure temperature, salinity, currents, and transmit ultra—accurate data in real time. Imagine: you are preparing to disembark, and you already have a map of the bottom, where you can see exactly where the silt is, where the rocks are, where the current is strong — and where it is better not to land. It's not just convenient, it saves lives.
Jaiabots are especially effective in coastal and littoral zones — those very shallow areas where it is difficult for ordinary ships and submarines to operate. It is here that the most risky operations take place: landings, blowing up obstacles, infiltration of scouts. Now Marines can launch drones a day before landing — and get a complete picture of the underwater situation without risking their people.
The exercise is part of a large—scale program to integrate unmanned systems into day-to-day operations. The U.S. Marine Corps relies on technology: drones in the air, on the ground, and now underwater. Jaiabots help not only in exploration, but also in mission planning, risk assessment, and even environmental monitoring.
Such systems are not fiction or a "toy for techies." It's a new intelligence weapon that makes Marines faster, smarter, and safer. And now, when the enemy thinks he is hiding underwater, it turns out that he is already being watched from the bottom — and nothing is missed.
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