America’s coming robot Navy: What could go wrong?
by Jamie McIntyre, Senior Writer |
| April 01, 2021 11:00 PM
Later this month, off the coast of San Diego, California, the U.S. Navy will be test-sailing what it sees as its destiny.
A single manned surface ship, the stealthy Zumwalt-class destroyer USS Monsoor, will be directing and coordinating a futuristic fleet of unmanned ships and aircraft in a weeklong exercise aimed at demonstrating how naval warfare is evolving.
The exercise, dubbed "Fleet Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem 21," will include two of the Navy's experimental unmanned surface vessels, the Sea Hunter and Sea Hawk, trimaran roboships, with outriggerlike pontoons, that are designed to transverse vast stretches of ocean with what the Navy calls "infrequent human interaction."
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