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How two brothers went from growing up on a sailboat to making underwater military vehicles | TechCrunch

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Vatn Systems is a startup producing autonomous underwater vehicles for defense uses.

The Rhode Island -based company announced a $13 million seed round on Tuesday .

The company's vehicles can swim within the top 300 meters of water and carry weapons like torpedoes.

The vehicles have other uses as well, like passing messages between ships in areas where signals are blocked by adversaries.

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