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US to Deploy Unmanned 'Ghost Ships' to Track Submarines
Marine Link ^ | April 04, 2015, | Aiswarya Lakshmi

Posted on 04/04/2015 1:16:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower

To keep track of increasingly stealthy Russian, Chinese, and Iranian submarines, the U.S. is building a robotic ghost ship - an unmanned, autonomous patrol ship - to follow them around the high seas.

(Excerpt) Read more at marinelink.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Russia
KEYWORDS: china; ghost; iran; navy; patrol; robot; russia; ship; submarine; usn
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Kinda cool. Underwater drone.
1 posted on 04/04/2015 1:16:07 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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need stealth “limpet mines” that will attach themselves to these rogue submarines..


2 posted on 04/04/2015 1:19:51 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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Nuclear powered?


3 posted on 04/04/2015 1:22:51 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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They've been doing this in one form or another for more than a decade already. Like when Data8 came out.
4 posted on 04/04/2015 1:26:12 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (The declining morals of the West vs the increasingly brutal Jihadists. Coincidence?)
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When they have one capable of tracking a Nuc one, attacking and sinking the Nuc one, they can give it the name SHARK.
5 posted on 04/04/2015 1:26:20 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Not real ghosts?

Oh well, back to central casting.

6 posted on 04/04/2015 1:32:24 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACTUV

Could be useful to a party looking to escape the consequences of a first strike.


7 posted on 04/04/2015 1:47:45 PM PDT by cynwoody
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8 posted on 04/04/2015 1:51:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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Ghost ship


9 posted on 04/04/2015 1:56:00 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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Nice to tell everyone. The anti-sub-drone is not far behind now.


10 posted on 04/04/2015 1:59:22 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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Iran has stealthy submarines....well, I know they are about to get nukes....but subs....did Kerry broker another deal that we don’t know about....what is next....the F-35..???


11 posted on 04/04/2015 2:02:22 PM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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Giving all of our F-35s to Iran would probably weaken them and strengthen us.


12 posted on 04/04/2015 2:03:29 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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Just so long as the Russians and Chinese don't start using some Great Dane countermeasures.


13 posted on 04/04/2015 2:03:41 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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I’m all for reducing costs and casualties.....but, damn. I’m not at all confident that we have thought this completely through. I hope we have.


14 posted on 04/04/2015 2:08:38 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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What will keep it from being captured?


15 posted on 04/04/2015 2:15:58 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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Valerie jarrett was born in iran. What else must we know?


16 posted on 04/04/2015 2:23:21 PM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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They need to add an explosive and have it latch on magnetically like a lamprey. If you get attacked, push a button and decimate their navy.


17 posted on 04/04/2015 2:32:45 PM PDT by struggle
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What will keep it from being captured?


Captured RQ-170 at right. Replica at left

18 posted on 04/04/2015 3:13:06 PM PDT by cynwoody
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Air drones, under water drones, drone vehicles and bots ... I would like a under the earth drone.


19 posted on 04/04/2015 3:27:09 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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Just that she recently said she’s proud of muslim heritage and admires Iran ...


20 posted on 04/04/2015 4:03:52 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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