Naval & Maritime defence companies in Denmark

Odense maker of Sentinus underwater robots (ROVs) that inspect ship hulls, harbour walls and subsea infrastructure, marketed for defence surveillance and threat detection. The Danish armed forces operate a Sentinus 1, and Sentinus 2 was developed in collaboration with them.

Copenhagen maritime security company whose AI fuses multi-sensor data to expose dark ships and predict threats to undersea cables and other offshore infrastructure. Also developing BlueDragon, uncrewed surface vessels with interceptor drones to stop Shahed attacks off Ukraine's coast.

Danish company developing standardised physical and digital interfaces that let navies plug mission modules, sensors and uncrewed systems into any ship, sold as the ModuLink, ModuHub and ModuFleet products. Signed a memorandum of understanding with Babcock in August 2026 on hybrid naval capabilities.

Svendborg company that develops SKIPPER, an autonomous navigation system that brings route optimisation, collision avoidance and remote or unmanned operation to existing vessels for naval and commercial use.

SKIPPER

Autonomous navigation system that plugs into a vessel's propulsion and steering and pilots pre-defined waypoint missions, managing heading, course and speed. It detects obstacles with sensors such as radar, sonar and cameras, reroutes or slows down to avoid them, and communicates over 4G/5G, VDES, radio link or Starlink with a remote operator who can take over at any time.

Modular unmanned surface vessels

Small unmanned surface vessels developed by DanaDynamics and operated by its SKIPPER navigation system. The company launched its first maritime drone in 2019 and aims them at tasks such as seabed and cable inspection, harbour monitoring and equipment transport.

Aalborg operator building a VDES (AIS 2.0) network of low Earth orbit satellites and ground stations that gives maritime authorities, coast guards and ship owners secure ship-to-shore data links.

Builds X-WAVE, a 12-metre uncrewed surface vessel designed to hold station in all sea states for up to 348 days to watch over undersea cables and pipelines. Backed by Semco Maritime and Final Frontier, it signed a letter of intent with Babcock at DALO Industry Days in August 2026.

Deploys passive acoustic sensors across the seabed that use onboard AI to detect and classify underwater threats near cables, pipelines and coastlines.

Danish maker of the LARK, SWIFT and WREN drone systems and tactical drones for defence, police, fire services and offshore wind, based in Skanderborg.