Underwater Warfare: Can We Trust the Eyes and Ears of Autonomous Vehicles?
By Geoff Slocombe
August 28, 2017
Graeme Dunk’s recent post described challenges to Australia’s submarines in correctly classifying and discriminating between friendly and potential adversary submarines of similar design, such as the Kilo-class submarines operated by Russia, China, Indonesia, India and Vietnam.
A key question, which I can’t answer, is: what amount of risk is acceptable in deploying our multibillion-dollar submarines into potentially hostile waters? This post explores some existing and emerging technologies that could mitigate mission risks for our upgraded Collins and Shortfin Barracuda submarines.
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/08/28/underwater_warfare_can_we_trust_the_eyes_and_ears_of_autonomous_vehicles_112164.html
