A total of 25 national companies, among 130 from various nationalities, are testing their technology in operational environment with the Portuguese Navy within the scope of REPMUS 2026, which runs until September 25 in Troia. Among the participating national companies are Azur drones, Beyond Vision, blueOASIS, Critical Software, Deloitte Cyber & Networks, Eliot, Fullwave, HPDRONES, IIC TECHNOLOGIES Ltd, IronFence, OceanScan-MST Lda, Optimal, Particle Summary, SEA.AI, Tekever, Thales, UAVision, UFORCE Portugal and Vantaris. The exercise features more than 3,200 participants, 36 navies (25 participants and 11 observers) and 13 universities represented.
REPMUS, in its 16th edition, is taking place at the Naval Operational Experimentation Center in Troia, in Portuguese exercise areas and in the Infante D. Henrique Technological Free Zone, providing an area of over 400 square nautical miles (more than 1,370 square kilometers). The exercise is considered the world's largest in robotics experimentation and unmanned vehicles, testing unmanned systems for surface, sub-surface, aerial and land environments.
The exercise is organized by the Portuguese Navy together with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, the NATO Joint Capability Group Maritime Unmanned Systems and the European Defence Agency. The objective is to promote collaboration between armed forces, industry, academia and international organizations, potentially resulting in technologies that contribute to shaping the future of maritime security and defense.
