DriX H-8

The DriX H-8 is a medium-range Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) developed by French company Exail, measuring 7.71 m in length and weighing 1,600 kg, designed for hydrographic, geophysical, and ISR maritime missions. It offers up to 10 days endurance and 1,000 nautical miles range at up to 14 knots, carrying multi-sensor payloads including multibeam echosounders, sonars, radars, and cameras. The platform has been acquired by multiple customers including France's SHOM, Orlen Petrobaltic (Baltic Sea), and an unnamed European nation (five units for ISR), and has been validated in NATO exercises and trials with the U.S. and French navies. It supports both supervised autonomous and remote-controlled operations, with a human operator monitoring and able to intervene but not performing the survey task itself. Several extracted facts are clearly about unrelated systems (Zoom H8 audio recorder, NX8 IEMs, motorcycle engine, haptic pad, mining robot) and have been disregarded as noise.