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Originally Posted by Bellman
Not a torp exhibiting the earlier LwAmi 'feedbacks' but an unarmed torpedo with that
type of performance married to a UUVs sensor capacity.
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Personally, I don't think the UUV should be good for doing anything but hunting mines. Currently, there only exists one UUV in the US inventory, the LMRS. It has a side-scan imaging sonar for hunting bottom mines, and a short range, high frequency, forward looking, active sonar for detecting floating and tethered mines.
There's a lot of talk in theoretical circles about an ASW oriented UUV, but it's all purely theoretical and it looks like to do it you'd have to build something much larger than would fit in a torpedo tube. There's some talk about something called the Sea Talon that Lockheed Martin is looking at building, but that's not going to fit on a submarine. It all exists only on PowerPoint slides at this point.