Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

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[Colin Parkinson]

I see the marine drones being quite effective in areas like the SW Pacific region, Red Sea, portions of the Med and parts of the African coasts. I suspect their effectiveness drops sharply in deep water portions of the ocean. and areas of poor weather, high sea states.

 

[Kirkhill]

I see the marine drones being quite effective in areas like the SW Pacific region, Red Sea, portions of the Med and parts of the African coasts. I suspect their effectiveness drops sharply in deep water portions of the ocean. and areas of poor weather, high sea states.

Ghost Shark operates for up to 10 days autonomously at depths up to 6000 meters (not a misprint).

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Ghost Shark operates for up to 10 days autonomously at depths up to 6000 meters (not a misprint).

Collecting intel, it would have to surface or get close to the surface to get orders to engage if it's even armed.

 

[Kirkhill]

Collecting intel, it would have to surface or get close to the surface to get orders to engage if it's even armed.

How about releasing smaller communications uuvs for flash transmissions? Maybe even recovering them?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

How about releasing smaller communications uuvs for flash transmissions? Maybe even recovering them?

Underwater comms is a huge issue and don't thing to many navies are ok with releasing a UAV to hunt whatever it finds. That could end badly. What could happen down the line is that these devices have recordings of various targets and if it confirms the sound as a previously identified target in a "Killbox", it might have the pre-authorization to attack.

 

[GR66]

Underwater comms is a huge issue and don't thing to many navies are ok with releasing a UAV to hunt whatever it finds. That could end badly. What could happen down the line is that these devices have recordings of various targets and if it confirms the sound as a previously identified target in a "Killbox", it might have the pre-authorization to attack.

Autonomous "Killing" faces lots of technical (and ethical) hurdles but autonomous "Hunting" should be a much lower bar to achieve.

We have manned systems that are capable of engaging targets (of course we could always use more) so to my mind our focus should be on autonomous sensor nodes to improve our domain awareness and feed targets to our manned systems. The technological and financial hurdles are much lower and the payoff can come much more quickly.

 

[IKnowNothing]

Autonomous "Killing" faces lots of technical (and ethical) hurdles but autonomous "Hunting" should be a much lower bar to achieve.

We have manned systems that are capable of engaging targets (of course we could always use more) so to my mind our focus should be on autonomous sensor nodes to improve our domain awareness and feed targets to our manned systems. The technological and financial hurdles are much lower and the payoff can come much more quickly.

Drone based 21st century evolution of SOSUS/SURTASS