The robotic turn is a record, not a forecast.
Low-cost uncrewed surface vessels have already pushed conventional fleets out of contested waters. The war of tomorrow is asymmetric and robotic because the war of today already is.
BOAXT Defense & Dual Use
A new doctrineof naval warfare.
From freight to fleet. A 20 ft container that deploys as an 11.17 m uncrewed-ready vessel, built to operate as a node in a distributed fleet.
Stealth by designVector by essenceTactical by nature
20'High cube, stowed
11.17mLength overall
Up to50knTop speed
5.8tDeadweight
50nmCoastal operating limit
The BOAXT Doctrine
The unit of account is not the vector. It is the formation.
BOAXT is not a small warship. It is a vector: a mobile, autonomous, reconfigurable carrier of effects. Power is no longer measured in tonnage, but in the number of independent effects a commander can place at sea at the same moment.
The exquisite platform wins the engagement and loses the war of cost.
Interceptors worth millions are spent against threats built for thousands. Concentrating capability in a few irreplaceable platforms has become a vulnerability.
Precision made every affordable unit effective.
The future belongs to forces that are distributed, attritable, autonomous and produced at scale. That is the force BOAXT is designed to be.
The vector, not the platform.
As a missile is the vector of its warhead, BOAXT is the vector of an effect: a sensor, a drone, an electronic payload, an intelligence. The product is the vector.
Stealthy by resemblance, not by radar cross-section.
Built to the ISO container, the most common object in world trade. It travels and waits among millions of identical boxes, and takes their cost and handling for free.
A vector alone delivers. Vectors composed become a force.
In employment each BOAXT is a node in a distributed fleet. The unit of account moves from the object to the formation.
Stealth by design.Vector by essence.Tactical by nature.
The BOAXT DoctrineConsolidated · v1.0
Composed for the mission. Distributed by design.
BOAXT · formation underwayPrinciples Eight commitments
How the fleet is composed, employed and sustained.
Stated as commitments, not aspirations.
- 01
Distributed over concentrated
No single loss removes the mission. The force degrades gracefully.
- 02
Composition over uniformity
Specialised roles, composed by the commander for each mission.
- 03
Affordable attrition
Cheap enough to risk, fast enough to replace.
- 04
Human on the loop
Autonomy executes. The human sets the rules and can halt the fleet.
- 05
Sensor-to-effect compression
Any node senses, decides within its authority and acts.
- 06
Reconfigurability as reach
Change the payload, not the platform.
- 07
Cost-imposition
Make the adversary spend more to stop a node than it costs to field one.
- 08
AI layer & software as the centre of gravity
The software turns many vectors into one force: shared perception, swarm coordination, one operator. Anyone can build a vector. The AI layer makes it a fleet. AI layer →
AI layer The swarm
One operator. A swarm of drones.
The AI layer is what lets BOAXT units fight as one. It fuses what every unit sees, shares out the tasks and keeps the formation together, so a single operator supervises the swarm instead of piloting each boat. Without it, many units are many burdens. With it, they are one force.
Each unit keeps working on its own when the link is jammed or cut, and rejoins the swarm when it comes back. The human stays on the loop: sets the rules, approves what matters, can stop everything.
Teleoperated1 : 1
Supervised1 : few
Swarm1 : many
L1
Shared perceptionEvery sensor on every unit fused into one picture: surface, air and subsurface.
L2
Swarm decision engineAssigns roles and tasks across the swarm, and re-tasks when the mission changes.
L3
On-unit autonomyNavigates and executes its authorised task when the link is degraded or denied.
L4
Single-operator supervisionOne station steers the whole swarm, by exception.
L5
Decision supportSurfaces only what needs a human, with options and predicted outcomes.
L6
Audit trailEvery action justified and traceable.
The Mother Ship Sovereign reach
What a carrier is to its fighters.
A mobile sea base that transports, launches, sustains, recovers and commands a fleet of BOAXT nodes. Stowed as containers on deck, each node unfolds and is lowered to the water at the chosen place and moment. Without it, BOAXT is a coastal force. With it, BOAXT is expeditionary.
The node hides in the container.The swarm hides in the fleet.The base hides in the trade.
ReachGlobal
Projects the swarm across oceans without bases or basing rights.
EnduranceWeeks on station
Refuels, rearms and repairs the nodes at sea.
Command afloatForward
The human on the loop and the compute travel with the force.
RecoveryReusable
Launches and recovers, campaign after campaign.
D-01 Defense & Dual Use
Invisible until it unfolds.
Multimodal by design. BOAXT fits the global logistics chain: it moves as a standard 20 ft high cube container and becomes a vessel only where the mission needs one.
Road, rail, sea, air.
ISO corner castings, standard handling. Truck, train, ship or airlift, with nothing on the manifest that says vessel.
Fits where freight fits.
Pre-positioned through the network that already reaches every port, dormant and indistinguishable until it is composed into a force.
Concealed in transit. Declared in action.
A node reveals its status before any kinetic use and operates under sovereign authority.
AirliftConvoyRailShipQuayUnfoldMission
Dual use Civil applications
The same vector, at work.
The platform that serves defense serves industry: the same container logistics, the same deck, a different payload.
O-02
P-03
O-03
E-04
P-04
W-05Swipe
Prototype Built and launched
Not a render. An existing product.
We built a full-scale prototype. Delivered folded on a truck, lifted by crane, unfolded and assembled on the quay. The concept works.
From a 20 ft box on a flatbed to a vessel afloat, using standard port equipment and no dedicated infrastructure.
- Status
- Launched
- Handling
- Truck · crane · quay
- Next
- Defense configuration
The next fleetships as freight.
Distributed by doctrine
Official launch
World premierereveal at Euronaval 2026
StandE72Hall 6
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