Panel: Unmanned Surface Vessels Will be Significant Part of Future U.S. Fleet
By: John Grady
April 15, 2019 6:11 PM • Updated: April 16, 2019 10:42 AM
The Navy’s next force structure assessment likely will add significant numbers of large and medium-sized unmanned surface vessels to meet the challenges of a new era of Great Power competition, experts in maritime strategy and budget said on Monday.
The emphasis on unmanned for the new shift in fleet composition would show “the urgency with which the Navy is attaching the situation,†even without a concept of operations as to how these vessels would be used, Ronald O’Rourke, naval affairs specialist at the Congressional Research Service.
One reason for the move was the speed to which unmanned vessels can integrate into the fleet.
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