Posted on 04/03/2016 12:06:52 PM PDT by golux
The U.S. Department of Defense has released the first footage of its prototype unmanned anti-submarine ship being developed to track quiet diesel-electric submarines over long distances.
The new vessel was launched in January at Vigor’s shipyard in Portland, Oregon, where it has quietly been under construction for the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
During a speed tests in February, the vessel reached a top speed of 27 knots.... (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
Old Alpha Male Sperm Whales are not going to like it.
This sounds like a convenient target drone ship for the “enemy” submarines. Torpedo practice!
Seen it month ago here or at FA.
One ugly ship. Unmanned you would think it did not look so convential.
I assume they have given the ship the option of being manned by a crew. That may explain the conventional appurtenances.
You want beautiful? Give the contract to Lockheed-Martin.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to ‘tap’ on the fratzenjammer controllers to get the do-widget to work right.
Unmanned, but it appears to have a bridge with a door and windows.
Out of the gate.
Any successful employment of them would necessitate them making decision for months on end without direction or correction.
There is no way to communicate effectively with a sub at -2000 meters. And if it rises to 150ft to put out a long wire it's likely to lose contact with it's target.
“A drone submarine controlled by AI and pre-programed actions, is a really bad idea.”
Uh, it is NOT a submarine.
Uh, check the link, indeed its a surface vessel and a submarine.
it’s missing screen doors.
“Uh, check the link, indeed its a surface vessel and a submarine.”
Time for your eye-doctor appointment ...
Wouldn't communications depend on data rate and transmission frequency? I would expect ELF to reach deep from land-based transmission sites but with a low data rate, and sound to reach deep at a higher data rate from the surface ship.
EVERYTHING IS STUPID!
Anything to make this country stronger militarily, in spite of Obama.
So what's to stop the enemy from surfacing and manning it? or at least unplugging it.
“So what’s to stop the enemy from surfacing and manning it? or at least unplugging it. “
Self-destruct button?
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