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Offline rangerrebew

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The Navy is using solar-powered drone boats as scouts in the Persian Gulf
« on: January 14, 2023, 01:13:02 pm »
The Navy is using solar-powered drone boats as scouts in the Persian Gulf
They just need wind and sun to get things done.

BY KELSEY D. ATHERTON, POPULAR SCIENCE | PUBLISHED JAN 13, 2023 9:00 AM
 
This article originally appeared in Popular Science.

From January 6 through 9, in the Persian Gulf, the US Navy conducted an exercise in which two Saildrone robotic boats communicated with the USS Delbert D. Black, a destroyer. The exercise used robots, AI, and a crewed ship to scout the environment around them, a practical peacetime use of the robot that could inform how these tools are used in war.

“During the exercise, unmanned and artificial intelligence systems operated in conjunction with Delbert D. Black and CTF [Coalition Task Force] Sentinel’s command center ashore in Bahrain. The systems were able to help locate and identify objects in nearby waters and relay visual depictions to watchstanders,” the US Navy said in a release.

This isn’t the first time the Navy has used Saildrones in these waters. In August 2022, a ship from the US Coast Guard and a ship from the Royal Bahrain Naval Force worked alongside a Saildrone, integrating the robot’s sensors into the mission. And in September 2022, while Navy Saildrones were operating in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s Navy temporarily seized and held the robots before returning them to the US Navy, a return facilitated by the USS Delbert D. Black.

Robots at sea can see

https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/navy-saildrones-persian-gulf/
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Re: The Navy is using solar-powered drone boats as scouts in the Persian Gulf
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2023, 06:56:36 pm »
Not a bad idea as long as the Navy doesn't fall in love with them to the point they are all that is available.

They may work fine is the Persian Gulf area,where it is mostly sunny most of the time,but not so well off the coast of places like Alaska.

Despite what the tech junkies want to tell  you,there is no such critter as a "one size fits all" technical development.
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