The Briefing Room
General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 18, 2019, 01:07:09 pm
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Navy’s Giant New Robot Sub Will Prowl Ocean For Months Autonomously
21 hours ago__Jon Christian
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The Navy just awarded Boeing a contract to build a giant robot submarine, called the Orca Extra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle, which it says will prowl the depths of the ocean autonomously for months at a time.
The U.S. Naval Institute says the sub will be used for “mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, electronic warfare and strike missions.â€
https://futurism.com/the-byte/giant-robot-sub-prowl-ocean