Just eyeballing here, but I'd bet you could fit four of these in my old ship's welldeck and still have room for the LCAC.
Posted on 04/28/2025 4:32:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Judgement Day is coming soon!
More of this please. A LOT more. Also....it’d be great if they could submerge. They don’t have to be full blown submarines all the time but if they could pop under the water when threatened, it would make them practically immune to missiles and drones. They wouldn’t even need to submerge that far under water.
The next generation Destroyer will.............
Is it hardened against an EMP? If not, its useless.
The U.S.S. Terminator….let’s hope it can’t be hacked.
Lol! It is a flat nosed Barge! It will not even cut through ten foot swells! This is an absolute scam for funds, this craft will never take on open seas. Every big wave will be a brick wall and bring it to a stop.
This lives in the well deck of an LHD and delivers stuff to shore. I’m not Navy/Marines and I can see that.
I am not impressed with AI, I think it’s still in its infancy. It generates too many errors. The AI driven land vehicles are an example. The grammatically poor and often confusing AI generated news articles another.
There’s nothing like the well trained human mind coupled with all of the body’s sensors to make snap decisions, the right ones pertaining to just about anything that can go wrong that a person was never trained for or experienced at. A lot of what helps us in those odd situations is instinct. And we follow the commands of our leaders (or at least used to)
You can’t do that with AI. It does not have genetic instinct and can only do what it’s programed to do. Some day the enemy will figure out just how to turn these things around and used them against us in battle.
It’s a patrol boat................
BTW we have similar manned hovercraft now. I’ve seen them from Panhandle beaches on maneuvers up and down the shore.
Pretty much all military equipment has been hardened against EMP, IIRC.
That’s basically what the Deep State and MIC are all about, being a scam for funds.
I used to laugh anytime anyone said that. Now I wonder.
“positioning the AIRCAT Bengal MC as a fast, heavily armed alternative that enhances lethality while offering superior operational speed.
This combination of firepower and agility makes it an appealing option for modern navies looking to maintain a technological edge.”
Anyone who has even the most minimal understanding of fluid dynamics and/or Hull design can take one look at this Vessel and see this statement is absolute BS.
“But the M5 did not think it was a drill, Captain! It was only protecting itself.”
Captain?
An AI computer with the entire log books of Sir Francis Drake , Lord Nelson, JP Jones, and Nimitz integrated in the memory banks.
“TW we have similar manned hovercraft now. I’ve seen them from Panhandle beaches on maneuvers up and down the shore.”
And they are absolutely useless let alone efficient on ten foot seas. The conditions would have to be absolutely calm and flat all the time for it to do what they claim it will do. A Tug Boat will out run it on ten foot seas. The nose of that is going to be diving into waves.
Maybe in a perfect world with perpetual perfectly calm seas. Other than that it will be a slug and never perform as they claim.
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