Aircraft
Regent Plans Military Variants for Viceroy Electric Seaglider
Options will include autonomous and hybrid-electric configurations
Regent Defense Viceroy Seagliders
Regent Defense will produce military variants of the 12-passenger Viceroy seaglider. © Regent Craft

Regent Craft, a Rhode Island-based company developing electric-powered seagliders for coastal transportation, has launched a new product line geared toward maritime defense operations. This product line will include a fully autonomous version of the company’s Viceroy seaglider, a 12-passenger hydrofoiling wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vessel it is developing for commercial operations.

Announcing the new Regent Defense business unit at the Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit on July 16, the company said its electric seagliders could “support the U.S. and its allies in countering the growing maritime national threat posed by China in the Indo-Pacific region.” 

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