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Borderland
10-26-2022, 08:09 PM
Navy drone ships.

About time. Armed drone ships. Could be a game changer.

Just think about that. Totally cost effective. Fewer military retirement pensions and VA claims. We lost a drone ship today but we have some more on the way.

Is this 21st century or am I living in a dream?

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/admiral-navy-sees-next-step-for-unmanned-in-key-autonomy-contract/
entropy
10-26-2022, 08:51 PM
...meanwhile...6000nm away, there’s some dude in Norfolk with a game controller, a bag of Cheetos, and a Mountain Dew.
Borderland
10-26-2022, 10:34 PM
...meanwhile...6000nm away, there’s some dude in Norfolk with a game controller, a bag of Cheetos, and a Mountain Dew.

War is hell.
CraigS
10-27-2022, 09:47 AM
I really hope these work out and keep getting better. The more we can do w/o risking American lives the better.
Glenn E. Meyer
10-27-2022, 10:05 AM
Skynet!
LittleLebowski
10-27-2022, 10:07 AM
Navy drone ships.

About time. Armed drone ships. Could be a game changer.

Just think about that. Totally cost effective. Fewer military retirement pensions and VA claims. We lost a drone ship today but we have some more on the way.

Is this 21st century or am I living in a dream?

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/admiral-navy-sees-next-step-for-unmanned-in-key-autonomy-contract/

They've been around for a while. The Iranians tried to steal one.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/iran-us-maritime-drone/index.html
MistWolf
10-27-2022, 02:07 PM
… until one sinks an oil tanker
Glenn E. Meyer
10-27-2022, 02:18 PM
Here's a different point of view: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/october/bring-back-pt-missile-boats

The author says the Navy is all about cutting needed ships for unproven technology that may or may not work. Their technical advances have been flops - the Ford, the LCS, Zumwalt. They would be better off with more conventional tech in sufficient numbers to do the job.

They are trying to see now if they can reload the VLS at sea as someone realized that once a ship is empty and has to sail thousands of miles to reload - well, that's not so great.
Borderland
10-27-2022, 02:21 PM
… until one sinks an oil tanker

The one the Iranians highjacked was probably unarmed just like the Global hawk they shot down in 2019.

I suspect that the Navy has plans to arm those surface drones.
Stephanie B
10-27-2022, 02:40 PM
Navy drone ships.

About time. Armed drone ships. Could be a game changer.

Just think about that. Totally cost effective. Fewer military retirement pensions and VA claims. We lost a drone ship today but we have some more on the way.

Is this 21st century or am I living in a dream?

No damage-control capability, they'd better be cheap and numerous.

I wonder how those will function in a hard EW environment.
JHC
10-27-2022, 02:57 PM
Is this 21st century or am I living in a dream?

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/admiral-navy-sees-next-step-for-unmanned-in-key-autonomy-contract/

This seems almost apropos.

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