Who needs sailors anyway?

[Kirkhill]

9 days from concept drawings to sea trials.
Autonomous 40 ft semi-submersible sea boat that displaces 7000 lb fully loaded
Trans-oceanic range

50% scale

Full scale

Option A 80 ft and 56,000 lbs?
Option B 50 ft and 14,000 lbs?

Florida company 3D prints a drone boat using robotic arms

A Florida company that started out printing furniture with giant robotic arms is now applying that same technology to something considerably more consequential, building drone boats for the U.S. military layer by layer instead of piece by piece. Haddy, a

defence-blog.com

The boat is known as the TF-179 or the Harbinger.

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This is in keeping with this mandate

Pentagon gives US arms industry 21 days to accelerate weapons production

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 : US Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg has given leaders of the American defense industry no more than 21 days to submit plans for signi...

www.arabtimesonline.com

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We have been here before

Shell Crisis of 1915 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And in WW2 Lord Beaverbrook and C.D. Howe led the Commonwealth effort.

 

[Kirkhill]

Oceanus17

A larger, more capable evolution of the OCEANUS platform, engineered for longer endurance missions, heavier payload integration, and improved survivability in harsher sea states, while remaining road-transportable for practical deployment.

www.zerousv.com

Oceanus 17

USV Specifications

Autonomy Level 4: GuardianAI

Length 17 m
Payload 4000 kg, 20 ft ISO
Payload Power Up to 30kW

Endurance 50-100 days
Range 5,000+ nm @ 6 kts
Top Speed 12 kts+

Powertrain Hybrid diesel-electric
Battery only Endurance 12 hours
Redundancy Critical system full dual redundancy: drivetrain, comms & compute

Mobilisation < ½ day
Transportation 60 ft MAFI - no escort UK


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And from the same company

The Slocum ( up to 13,000 km range with the right batteries)

Slocum Glider (Autonomous Underwater Glider) by Webb Research

Teledyne Marine's Slocum Gliders provide efficient, long-duration ocean monitoring and data collection. These autonomous underwater gliders deliver reliable performance for research missions.

www.teledynemarine.com

 

[Kirkhill]

https://www.techradar.com/pro/pentagon-launches-campaign-for-unmanned-boats-able-to-launch-drones-at-sea

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In WW1 and 2, to fill gaps in combat fleets navies reached out to the commercial fleets and requisitioned hulls which were the applied to the tasks which most closely approximated their capabilities.

The navies then worked with those hulls that were most successful and easiest to produce and built their fleets and tactics around them.

The problem the navies have today is that there is a shortage of hulls of any type for requisition.

The current ask is: "What can you give me today and what can I do with it?"

As in WW1 and WW2 the navies are being forced to revise TTPs to meet the realities of the tools available.

 

[GR66]

And from the same company

The Slocum ( up to 13,000 km range with the right batteries)

Slocum Glider (Autonomous Underwater Glider) by Webb Research

Teledyne Marine's Slocum Gliders provide efficient, long-duration ocean monitoring and data collection. These autonomous underwater gliders deliver reliable performance for research missions.

www.teledynemarine.com

That's amateur hour...

S5: S3 Support Ship (Mother Ship) - Swiftships

swiftships.com

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Florida company 3D prints a drone boat using robotic arms

A Florida company that started out printing furniture with giant robotic arms is now applying that same technology to something considerably more consequential, building drone boats for the U.S. military layer by layer instead of piece by piece. Haddy, a

defence-blog.com

Excellent! The Cartel was looking for something better than their home made contraptions.