Unmanned 'Ghost Ship' makes record breaking run through the Panama Canal

[Mr Quatro]

Wow! This is the future of the US Navy at least for supply ships

Pentagon ‘Ghost Fleet’ Ship Makes Record-Breaking Trip from Mobile to California

https://news.usni.org/2020/11/10/pen...-to-california

One of the Pentagon’s two Overlord large unmanned surface vessels conducted a first-ever Panama Canal transit, sailing thousands of miles from the Gulf Coast to California in a major test of autonomous systems with few reliability issues along the way, the chief of naval operations told USNI News.

The 59-meter USV, which was converted from a regular high-speed craft to a USV prototype last year, departed Mobile, Ala., on Sept. 18. After operating in the Gulf of Mexico for some time, it made a Panama Canal transit and arrived in Port Hueneme, Calif., on Nov. 5, according to data provided to USNI News from the MarineTraffic vessel tracking service.