 Launching and recovering a UAV off such small vessels is troublesome.Naval UAVs have traditionally been launched with a catapult or RATO boosters, and recovered using a net.Not only is this approach unsuited to smaller vessels, it is also not particularly reliable even on large vessels, with catapult launches causing drone damage, catapult failures leading to loss of the drone, and recoveries similarly leading to damage through collisions and unintended ditching.