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The Navy Just Bought A Fleet Of Robot Submarines To Prowl The Oceans And Mess With Adversaries
Business Insider ^
| 2-19-2019
| Jared Keller
Posted on 02/19/2019 11:07:58 AM PST by blam
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To: JamesP81
ULF. Or simply stick an antenna up for instructions. Small subs like this would be very very hard to track.
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:37:46 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: blam
My gut tells me there are other significant attributes these subs possess that are too secret to disclose.
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:38:07 AM PST
by
Son-Joshua
(son-joshua)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Directed by Roger Corman.
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:38:38 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: House Atreides
I agree, but not under our current president. Of course Hillary and Obama could have had access to the plans while they were in office.
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:40:05 AM PST
by
ryderann
To: JamesP81
As far as I know, before launch operators have to set waypoints that the sub can travel to without communications. Then it can either surface to get more instructions or simply go ahead and execute some set of previously loaded instructions, whatever they may be.
To: blam
I just want to say that I forecasted and posted of something like this several times over the past 4-5 years.
Eventually I foresee these growing to carry not just torps and missles, but additional aerial drones that can be launched and recovered from the platform.
The only real question I have had up to this point is how the comms will be handled for real-time remote operations and how deep they will be engineered to go.
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:43:28 AM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: blam
Is this being publicized at this time designed to encourage Kim’s cooperation during upcoming negotiations with Trump?
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:45:40 AM PST
by
ryderann
To: blam
Are they autonomous or remotely controlled?
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:46:57 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: fella
Why am I envisioning Terminator: Rise of the Machines?
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:52:10 AM PST
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: fella
A fleet of automatous submarines each capable of launching Trident missiles could stay on station at extreme depths for extended periods of time.How would you wake it up?
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:53:06 AM PST
by
Rio
To: shotgun
why not just torpedo the darn thing?
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:53:15 AM PST
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Guest Appearances by John Agar, Peter Graves, Mara Corday, Jeff Morrow, Richard Carlson, Tim Holt
and the monster that challenged the world. ( which took place at a naval testing station on the salton sea).
![](http://www.1000misspenthours.com/posters/postersh-m/monsterthatchallengedtheworld.jpg)
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:53:38 AM PST
by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: txnativegop
I agree. Then the mullahs can claim it was lost at sea during sea trials..
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:55:07 AM PST
by
shotgun
To: House Atreides
Or a Chinese national working at Boeing will send them a copy of the plans to build one (or a hundred) of their own.
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posted on
02/19/2019 11:55:23 AM PST
by
Two Kids' Dad
(((( Wake me when a prominent democrat gets prosecuted. ))))
To: House Atreides
IF they live up to the claims...
Just because the marketers convinced the Pentagon for a contract, does not mean they will perform as advertised once deployed.
Hopefully they will, but if not, they certainly won’t be the first weapons system that didn’t live up to promises.
To: blam
The U-Bot
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posted on
02/19/2019 12:09:11 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Presidents' Weekend BUMP)
To: pepsi_junkie
Then it can either surface to get more instructions or simply go ahead and execute some set of previously loaded instructions, whatever they may be. The sub itself doesn't need to surface. It just needs to deploy a float on a long wire to the surface, then reel it back in.
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posted on
02/19/2019 12:13:18 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: mikrofon
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posted on
02/19/2019 12:15:03 PM PST
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
To: Menehune56
I hope GE continues to make turbines and mini’s.
To: PapaBear3625
If it runs on batteries I do believe it needs to surface every once in a while at least enough to stick up a snorkel I think. I doubt it has a diesel generator or a nuke reactor in it so batteries it must be. But maybe they solved that problem, I don’t really know. I’m a landlubber.
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