The sea carries the modern world.
We've stopped watching it.
Pelagon is changing that.
The sea carries the modern world. 90% of trade. 99% of intercontinental data, beneath the surface in roughly 550 cables. Europe's energy transition — wind, LNG, hydrogen, interconnectors — is being built offshore. The sea is no longer a frontier; it is the physical layer of the European economy.
And it is largely unwatched. 25 million km² of European EEZ, patrolled by a handful of frigates. Below the surface, a monitoring vacuum. A frigate costs €1B and covers one patch of ocean at a time. Exquisite platforms cannot close this gap. The math doesn't work.
Adversaries have made the sea the preferred terrain of hybrid war: subsea cable incidents in the Baltic, Nord Stream, Houthi strikes shutting down the Red Sea. 600 shadow-fleet tankers moving sanctioned oil AIS-dark. Narco and migration routes uncontested. The Arctic opening to competition faster than we can watch it.
Europe needs a strong response. More frigates will not close a coverage gap this large. The answer is a doctrinal shift.
Persistent.
Distributed.
Unmanned. ISR.
A doctrinal shift for the maritime domain.