Sky News: How REGENT Defense is transforming maritime defense

REGENT Defense General Manager Tom Huntley recently spoke to Sky News about how Seagliders can benefit maritime defense operations. Here's a lightly edited transcript: 

So a Seaglider is a new form of maritime transportation.

It's a vessel that floats, hydrofoils, and flies low over the water, taking advantage of aerodynamic efficiency called ground effect in commercial passenger transportation.

It can move people from coastal communities, cargo logistics and then in the defense space importantly, it can provide ISR launched effects and contested logistics capability across thousands of miles in the maritime environment.

Right now, we rely on legacy platforms that are slow and highly targetable.

Seagliders enable distributed high speed, long range and low signature operations that can save lives.

Seagliders thrive in contested areas and within the threat matrix by relying on speed and low observability together flying just meters over the surface at speeds up to 160 knots or 180 miles an hour.

I think NATO navies are working together, but innovation is outpacing policy. We need to work together with industry, with governments and with all of our partners to bring this technology into the warfighters' hands.

I think it's a combination of speed and resilience that does take advantage over traditional armor where instead of protecting against attack, you arrive and and distribute your mission before attack can even take place.

We really rely on that, that speed and silence as a strategic advantage over heavily armament.