[House Atreides]

“ The “advanced American unmanned submarine” thing is a bit misleading- the REMUS 600 platform is available to commercial users. It’s a 12.5 inch diameter underwater drone.”
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I suspect that there is military specific technology on the Navy’s version. I could be wrong on that but I suspect not.

[verum ago]

I suspect that there is military specific technology on the Navy’s version. I could be wrong on that but I suspect not.

Absolutely, but it looks like the Navy has multiple versions: at least one proprietary one (painted for low observability) that would presumably have the military goodies installed on it, as well as regular, and much cheaper, commercial/research grade ones for things like meteorological observation, basic mapping, etc that are basically an off-the-shelf use.

I'm guessing it's the latter that got grabbed, given the neon green and logos etc.

I'm also guessing the surveillance / targeting version does have anti-tamper and /or self-destruct.