[Buckeye McFrog]

Tonight's feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is Robot Submarines Meet The Creature From The Black Lagoon starring Lyle Talbot, Tuesday Weld, Ernest Borgnine and Buster Crabbe.

[Big Red Badger]

I am impressed!

[rexthecat]

Unmanned ships and planes are the future of warfare. Robots and automation don’t need to be fed or trained and can easily be replaced when they die.

[fella]

A fleet of automatous submarines each capable of launching Trident missiles could stay on station at extreme depths for extended periods of time.

[House Atreides]

I’m predicting that within a couple of years one of these will be “snatched” and attempted to be taken to either China or Russia.

[PIF]

Original story:
Boeing Is Building Big Orca Drone Subs For The Navy To Hunt And Lay Mines And More
The new drone submarines will help lay the groundwork for the service's ambitious future unmanned undersea vehicle plans.
By Joseph Trevithick February 15, 2019

[ptsal]

Catch that rascal in a trawl net and it will be a real rodeo.

[Grampa Dave]

Since the Navy can’t afford to have starboard and port watches manned by sailors, this may be a good plan.

[Menehune56]

I'd like to see a fleet of autonomous armed drones patrolling the southern border 24/7.

[JamesP81]

I always wondered how they controlled these things. Radio doesn’t travel well through water.

[Son-Joshua]

My gut tells me there are other significant attributes these subs possess that are too secret to disclose.

[reed13k]

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.

[ryderann]

Is this being publicized at this time designed to encourage Kim’s cooperation during upcoming negotiations with Trump?

[IronJack]

Are they autonomous or remotely controlled?

[mikrofon]

The “U-Bot”

[SteveH]

it would be cool if it could procreate...

[glorgau]

It’s amazing how costs can be trimmed for military equipment if they don’t require a toilet seat.

[DeweyCA]

If they receive orders via satellite, they will be just one more item that won’t work when the Chinese start a war by disabling our communications satellites and also delivering an EMP.

[trebb]

Are they the Flipper class?

[Kickass Conservative]

I saw this scenario on an Episode of Voyage To The Bottom Of Sea.

It didn’t go well for the Crew of the USOS Seaview.