[KoRn]

Now THAT could get VERY interesting. With ‘nuke’ power, they could stay at sea for a century(or more?).

Don’t think I would like the idea of a drone ‘Boomer’. That’s one sub that I’d damn sure want HUMANS on.

[KoRn]

I forgot.... Doesn’t even nuclear powered craft need to be refueled every 20 or so years?

[montanajoe]

Small sub drones could hide at depths manned vessels could never approach and pop up to sting an enemy sub or launch a few missile's very intriguing..

[Strategerist]

What an incredibly incompetent article (well, Newsmax is citing an incompetent article.)

SAIC’s ACTUV is an unmmaned autonomous SURFACE vessel, designed to trail submarines.

http://investors.saic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=193857&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1757399

http://www.aviationweek.com/blogs.aspx?plckblogid=blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckpostid=blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7post%3Af3c18264-f66f-40eb-ab0e-92d9a90f5a7c

Also, it’s not going to be nuclear-powered. There’s zero chance the US will ever put an unmanned nuclear-powered vessel in the water (not even one powered by radioisotopes, rather than a reactor.)

[upchuck]

Guess NewsMax is having trouble finding news. They took an article from Russia Today (rt.com), excerpted it and added a little to it. This is journalism?

[hosepipe]

About time.....

[Secret Agent Man]

tomorrow’s wars will not be fought by you cadets, but instead, off in distant places, by robots. and it will be your job to control and maintain those robots. /simpsons

[Dogbert41]

I suppose the very first thing we'll do after spending billions upon billion in developing one is drive the first working prototype right up on an Iranian beach!

[Brandonmark]