I was just wondering. With the current technology available, would it be able to have a submarine that is nuclear powered that is unmanned, drone-like that you could basically take out, put on the bottom and just wait for activation and/or just put it in a slow float or “idle” to keep machinery working but keeping it slow and low enough to avoid sonar?
Just laying out their and waiting for activation. No crew, no worries about supply and just lurking. You could make it come up if you wanted to “check” it, but otherwise just a gun pointed at our heads.
I’m not educated in the maritime engineering or actual operations of a sub is why I ask.
The reason I’m asking is that I think we are at the very beginning of unmanned weapons making warfare much more deadly, rapid and limited only by resources and imagination.
I’m not saying that man on the ground killing another man is going to stop, I’m just saying that augmented soldiers will be more deadly and tip the scales in the favor of technology. Exo-skeletons, small lethal drones, small insect like probes for real time sound and video, instead of bombs maybe hundreds of small self directed munitions that are released etc.
I am sure if I thought about it, the really smart guys in the DOD are thinking about it also.
They can't communicate in real time through the sea, though it is possible to give them very short, encoded instruction via VLF down to about 100ft.