Sea Hunter, a 132-foot-long trimaran completion of her first unmanned patrol

[Mr Quatro]

This kind of news gets more play over here in GT than in Sub and Naval Discussions (why I do not know) So I propose new news like this be started here and then moved over to:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=186



https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fima ges%2F509917%2Fldos-designed-sea-hunter-gets-underway-following-its-christening-ceremony-in-oregon-source-us-navy-photo-by-john-f-williams.jpg&w=700&op=resize

The research arm of the U.S. Navy has successfully sailed an autonomous ship from San Diego to Hawaii and back with little human intervention. That's a huge accomplishment for the Navy, as well as for the contractor who supplied the brains for the vessel.

The Office of Naval Research said the Sea Hunter, a 132-foot-long trimaran designed by Leidos Holdings (NYSE:LDOS), completed the mission without a crew save for short boardings from an escort vessel to monitor electrical and propulsion systems. The voyage was part of a series of tests begun in 2016 and expected to extend through the rest of the year.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/06/this-autonomous-navy-ship-just-passed-a-huge-miles.aspx

[Gargamel]

What I love about this, is that us here on SUBSIM got to play a part in designing the AI it uses. Anybody remember the ACTUV game?

[mapuc]

What I love about this, is that us here on SUBSIM got to play a part in designing the AI it uses. Anybody remember the ACTUV game?

Now that you mentioned it I do.
Neal made a special section for it

I also Remember that I could not play it on my older Vista computer.

Markus

[Mr Quatro]

From the same article in post one: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/06/this-autonomous-navy-ship-just-passed-a-huge-miles.aspx

Sea Hunter profile for as little as $20 million apiece and operate them for $15,000 to $20,000 per day. By comparison, a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer costs $1.8 billion, and with its full crew costs $700,000 per day to operate.

At that price you could afford a thousand of these ships and design them to attack anyone that attacks them :o

[Gargamel]

From the same article in post one: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/06/this-autonomous-navy-ship-just-passed-a-huge-miles.aspx



At that price you could afford a thousand of these ships and design them to attack anyone that attacks them :o


IIRC, these ships are not intended to be weapons platforms, but just have the ability to lock onto a target and not let it go until other assets can be called in.

[em2nought]

From the same article in post one: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/06/this-autonomous-navy-ship-just-passed-a-huge-miles.aspx



At that price you could afford a thousand of these ships and design them to attack anyone that attacks them :o


...or maybe they could make some Roboseavacs and clean up all the plastic so we can have straws. :D

[Mr Quatro]

IIRC, these ships are not intended to be weapons platforms, but just have the ability to lock onto a target and not let it go until other assets can be called in.

This is just a prototype of the future of naval warfare ... an unmanned drone carrier could be next. :yep: