Role & capabilities
- Maritime security surveillance
- Modular underwater sensing
- Mine countermeasures support
- Primary domain
- Sea surface
- System type
- Uncrewed surface vessel
- Developer / manufacturer
- Elbit Systems
- Origin / production countries
- Israel
- Other names
- Seagull USV
- Variants / configurations
- Mission-configured Seagull; crewed and uncrewed modes
- Operators / programme customers
- Israel Navy — service since 2017 reported by Elbit
Evidence & current status
Service history is explicitly attributed to Elbit. Optional sensors, crewed modes and export configurations should be checked against each customer contract.
Seagull is Elbit Systems' modular surface-vessel platform for missions including maritime security, underwater sensing and mine countermeasures. It is included here because it supports genuine uncrewed operation, although its design also permits a crewed mode. Those two operating modes should not be confused with a requirement for personnel to remain aboard during remote missions.
The manufacturer describes a twelve-metre craft with removable floats and interchangeable mission suites. A common control system can supervise two vessels, and links can connect a shore site or supporting ship to the platform. Different sonar and optical arrangements are offered; a catalogue option is not evidence that every delivered boat carries it.
Elbit stated in March 2021 that Seagull had served with the Israeli Navy since 2017 and that international production and deployment were underway. That is a named supplier assertion of service, rather than an independently published fleet inventory. The current four-day-plus endurance claim refers to cruising operation. Public sources reviewed do not establish a complete current operator list or uniform fleet configuration.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration | Optionally crewed vessel with fully uncrewed modes | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Hull / propulsion | Composite and aluminium construction; removable floats | Engine rating not established from reviewed sources. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | 12 m length | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Displacement / mass | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Interchangeable mission suites | No universal payload mass published on the reviewed product page. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | More than four days at cruising speed | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Sea state / environment | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Configurable towed/dipping sonar and electro-optical sensing | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Communications / control | Line-of-sight and SATCOM; one control system for two vessels | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Launch / deployment | Port or supporting ship; transport in a 40-foot container advertised | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
Documented milestones
Service and autonomy update
Elbit stated Israeli Navy service since 2017 and announced navigation/vision upgrades.
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Publication history
- — Added sourced land and maritime coverage with domain-specific evidence and limitations.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- Seagull current product description (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme
- Autonomy update and Israeli service statement, 22 March 2021 (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme