I forsee drone surface and submarine launching platforms for flying drones in 10 years at less expense and risk to operate than current fleet technology. The arguement will be made that we no longer require manned fleets when we can field twice as many unmanned for a lower cost.
Then when the shooting starts we’ll have no one in theater to react when the data feeds are disrupted.
Consider drones armed with homing torpedos, drone
torpedos, drone submersibles.
I wonder how DARPA is coming with LOKI?
Look up DARPA+LOKI sometime.
I could see that as a drone, no crew to worry
about.
Several millions invested, they should have made
some progress on the vortex drive by now.