October 20, 2019
The U.S. Navy Has Orca Robot Submarines on the Way that Could Transform Naval Warfare
Is the future of undersea combat?
by Sebastien Roblin
At a military parade celebrating its 70th anniversary, the People’s Republic of China unveiled, amongst many other exotic weapons, two HSU-001 submarines—the world’s first large diameter autonomous submarines to enter military service.
The unarmed robot submarines visibly had communication masts and sonar aperture suggestive of their intended role as tireless underwater surveillance systems intended to report on the movements of warships and submarines of other navies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navy-has-orca-robot-submarines-way-could-transform-naval-warfare-89721
