A model of an ULAQ unmanned surface vessel sits on display at the Meteksan booth at DIMDEX 2024. (Agnes Helou / Breaking Defense) BEIRUT — Fresh off signing a deal to export an armed, unmanned maritime surface vessel to Qatar, a senior executive at the Turkish defense firm Meteksan said demand is only growing. “All the world is now much interested in attaining such unmanned surface vessels or unmanned maritime technology,” Meteksan’s Vice Chairman of the Board Selçuk Kerem Alparslan told