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U.S‑based REGENT, a devel­op­er and man­u­fac­tur­er of Seaglid­er mar­itime ves­sels, recent­ly announced the for­ma­tion of ‘REGENT Defence’, reports a press release. The com­pa­ny unveiled, last week, a new prod­uct line for mil­i­tary appli­ca­tions at the ‘Re-indus­tri­alise Sum­mit’ in Detroit.

Com­ple­ment­ing a USD10 bil­lion com­mer­cial back­log, the com­pa­ny is to man­u­fac­ture REGENT Defence Seaglid­ers at its HQ in Rhode Island to sup­port the U.S and allies in coun­ter­ing the increas­ing mar­itime nation­al threat posed by Chi­na in the Indo-Pacif­ic region.

The release explains, “REGENT’s pro­pri­etary hydro-foil­ing wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) Seaglid­er design offers an unmatched com­bi­na­tion of high-speed, long-range, and low-sig­na­ture capa­bil­i­ties, all at sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced costs com­pared to lega­cy trans­porta­tions solu­tions.”

It con­tin­ues, “These advan­tages direct­ly address the ‘tyran­ny of dis­tance’ often seen in lit­toral oper­a­tions, where resup­ply and trans­port across vast ocean stretch­es has his­tor­i­cal­ly been dif­fi­cult.”

Bil­ly Thal­heimer, Co-Founder and CEO of REGENT, com­ment­ed, “We are com­mit­ted to advanc­ing our REGENT Defence work to equip the Amer­i­can warfight­er with a much need­ed mobil­i­ty solu­tion that gives a strate­gic edge.”

He went on, “At the same time, we’re help­ing to revi­talise Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing by build­ing these ves­sels here at home, cre­at­ing high-tech jobs and restor­ing Amer­i­can com­pet­i­tive­ness on the glob­al stage.”

As a Type A WIG craft, Seaglid­ers oper­ate exclu­sive­ly over water with­in a wingspan of the water’s sur­face, ben­e­fit­ting from the aero­dy­nam­ic effi­cien­cies of ground effect and remain­ing above sonar and below radar. 

This allows Seaglid­er craft to ser­vice a wide range of mar­itime defence mis­sions.

They include:-

: Troop and sup­ply logis­tics.

: Med­ical evac­u­a­tion (MEDEVAC) and search and res­cue.

: Intel­li­gence, sur­veil­lance, and recon­nais­sance (ISR).

: Launched effects, includ­ing deploy­ment of uncrewed sys­tems from the Seaglid­er ves­sel.

Tom Hunt­ley, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of REGENT Defence, remarked, “We’re build­ing engi­neered plat­forms for mar­itime defence oper­a­tions in con­test­ed and logis­ti­cal­ly com­plex mar­itime envi­ron­ments. A com­bi­na­tion of speed, range and low sig­na­ture, enables mis­sion suc­cess while pro­vid­ing a low-cost, scal­able solu­tion to deter con­flict and enhance oper­a­tional readi­ness.”

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In March, REGENT announced a USD10 mil­lion expand­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Marine Corps Warfight­ing Lab through the sec­ond phase of a con­tract agree­ment to val­i­date Seaglid­er use cas­es across logis­tics, ISR, MEDEVAC, launched effects, and oth­er mis­sion-crit­i­cal areas.

In addi­tion, the com­pa­ny has for­malised devel­op­ment rela­tion­ships with U.S Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand (USSOCOM) and the U.S Coast Guard Research and Devel­op­ment Cen­tre, sup­port­ing inno­va­tion in agile, next-gen­er­a­tion mar­itime mobil­i­ty.

Mean­while, REGENT’s com­mer­cial arm is cre­at­ing a prod­uct line of Seaglid­ers that include a ful­ly autonomous Viceroy ves­sel as well as hybrid ver­sions, plus a quar­ter-scale autonomous mod­el called ‘Squire’. This autonomous hybrid ves­sel has a pay­load of 50 lbs and can trav­el at speeds of up to 80 mph for routes more than 115 miles.

While, the Viceroy Seaglid­er has a pay­load of 3,500 lbs and can trav­el at speeds of over 170 mph for routes up to 180 miles in the all-elec­tric mod­el and up to 1,600 miles in the hybrid ver­sion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.regentcraft.com

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