DDAC 2026: Saildrone planning to build 10–15 Voyager USVs per year

A Saildrone Voyager SD-2015 USV deployed in the Baltic Sea with the Royal Danish Navy/DALO in November 2025. (Saildrone )

Saildrone is planning to build 10–15 units of its Voyager unmanned surface vehicle (USV) per year as part of its European operation, Robert Kleist, European managing director for Saildrone, told Janes on 5 February during the Danish Defence Annual Conference (DDAC) 2026, held on 5 and 6 February in Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Around 10 countries in our region have expressed interest and are in the middle of signing contracts or we are close to signing agreements with them,” Kleist said. He did not elaborate on the details around the contracts. Both the Surveyor and Voyager are planned to be sold to several Scandinavian and Baltic countries to be used for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), and seabed mapping, according to Kleist. California-headquartered Saildrone announced it was establishing a European subsidiary in Denmark in April 2025 to address the urgent need for maritime domain awareness in European waters, Janes reported at the time. “Denmark is uniquely situated in the centre of the European maritime environment, with coastlines on both the Baltic and North Seas,” Saildrone said in April 2025.