Vessels
A line of uncrewed surface vessels made in Canada, sharing one autonomy stack: one class on the water, two in design. Keeping the vessels low cost means they can be fielded in the numbers that wide-area surveillance requires.
A line of uncrewed surface vessels made in Canada, sharing one autonomy stack: one class on the water, two in design. Keeping the vessels low cost means they can be fielded in the numbers that wide-area surveillance requires.
A 16-foot welded-aluminum uncrewed surface vessel, designed to transit fast on gas, hold station for weeks on electric power and solar, and ship two to a standard container. The first hull, Eureka 001, is in commissioning trials on Ontario waters.
The gas engine is sized for a 24-knot cruise, with up to 1,200 km of range at economical speed. On station, differential electric thrusters hold position quietly on an 11 kWh battery bank, recharged by 800 W of solar.
Launches from a trailer at any boat ramp. Two vessels stack in a standard 20-foot ISO container, so a patrol pair travels anywhere a container ships, including northern sealift.
Doppler radar, thermal and colour cameras, and an AIS transceiver feed an onboard AI edge processor. Fused contacts reach the operator over Starlink, LTE, or RF.
| Origin | Made in Canada by a Canadian-owned company |
| Length overall | 4.88 m (16 ft) |
| Beam | 1.73 m (68 in) |
| Draft | 0.15 m (6 in) with drives raised |
| Dry weight | 454 kg (1,000 lb) |
| Hull | Welded aluminum, 3.2 mm (1/8 in) plate, from a Canadian boatbuilder |
| Propulsion | Gasoline outboard for transit; differential electric thrusters for station-keeping and quiet manoeuvring |
| Fuel | 246 L (65 US gal) gasoline |
| Energy | 11 kWh lithium iron phosphate bank, self-heating for charging below freezing |
| Charging | 800 W solar on station; 19 A engine alternator underway; 50 A shore charger |
| Speed | 24 kt cruise, 30 kt maximum † |
| Range | Up to 1,200 km (648 nm) on gas at economical speed; 200 km (108 nm) on battery, extended by solar charging † |
| Endurance | Up to 60 days at sea † |
| Payload | 363 kg (800 lb) † |
| Sea state | Sea State 3 operating; Sea State 4 transit † |
| Sensors | Doppler radar, thermal camera, colour camera, AIS transceiver, dual-antenna multi-band GNSS |
| Navigation | Dual-antenna multi-band GNSS: RTK precision, true heading without a magnetic compass, and Galileo OSNMA authentication of the satellite navigation message |
| Compute | Onboard AI edge processor running our perception and navigation software |
| Communications | Starlink, LTE, and encrypted long-range radio, plus an optional vehicle-to-vehicle mesh; the vessel behaves predictably when links degrade |
| Command | Operated from our fleet console; a single operator can command several hulls |
| Launch & recovery | Trailer launch from any boat ramp; two vessels stack in a standard 20-foot ISO container |
† Dimensions, construction, and fit are as built on the operating prototype. Performance figures are design targets being verified in on-water trials.
Download the Eureka class datasheet (PDF)Doctrine search patterns: parallel track, creeping line, expanding square, sector. Each is planned from a drift-corrected datum and run with no crew aboard. Thermal cameras search in darkness. Several vessels divide one area, and they stay on task after crewed assets have to turn back.
Persistent watch over harbours, coastlines and chokepoints. Radar, AIS and camera contacts are fused into single tracks, and a contact whose declared identity stops matching its measured track is flagged to the operator.
Repeatable patrol of approaches, channels and boundary waters, day and night. A six-inch draft reaches water that crewed patrol craft cannot, and a vessel can hold a line for days at a time.
Monitoring on closed-area boundaries, estuaries and river channels where patrol vessels cannot follow. Electric thrusters hold station quietly and thermal cameras record at night. Observations carry time, position and provenance.
Fixed-station monitoring of traffic in a defined area: speed through a restricted zone, discharge on the water, and vessels operating without AIS. Tracks and imagery are recorded against an audit trail.
A stable, quiet platform for hydrographic and environmental payloads, running planned lines or holding station for weeks. Lane coverage is tracked as it is swept and logged with the data.
Multi-day monitoring and survey lines on reservoirs, pit lakes and remote northern waters, where putting a crewed boat on the water means trucking one in and staffing it.
Placing, checking and recovering small instrument packages on a schedule, without a crewed launch: drifters, sensor buoys and light moorings within the vessel’s payload.
Applications span government and defence, science, and commercial operations on Canada’s coasts, in its northern waters and on its inland waterways. Payload and sensor fit are configured per mission.
Next in the line
A smaller class for rivers, lakes, and harbours. Electric propulsion with an onboard diesel generator, built for slow, quiet, long-duration work. Details will follow.
An uncrewed landing craft, designed to carry uncrewed ground vehicles and palletized cargo. Details will follow.
Concept drawings, preliminary. Configurations will change as the designs mature.
Capabilities proven on the Eureka class carry over to the classes that follow, because the software is shared.
About the autonomy stack