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Giant Orca drone meant to be used by the US Navy, which is about three years late to completion, exceeding budget.

According to the U.S. GAO report, the original cost of the project was $379 million, which has now escalated to $621 million with $504 million already spent.

A program to develop an unmanned, 80-ton minelaying submarine is three years late and $242 million over budget, according to a Wednesday report from the Government Accountability Office. The Navy’s Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) prototype program was set to deliver five of the autonomous submersibles based on Boeing’s Echo Voyager as a rapid […]

Orca, the U.S. Navys mine-laying drone, is running at least three years late and 64% over original cost estimates because the service failed to determine that aerospace giant Boeing had the skills needed to build the seagoing vessel.

Reports based on satellite images indicate China may be working on building its massive unmanned submarines at the Sanya Naval Base in the South China Sea.

Beijing's rapid large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons is a sign the Chinese military is moving away from its past defensive strategy toward the use of "nuclear coercion" to achieve Chinese Communist Party aims, such as the takeover of Taiwan, according to a think tank report authored by a Strategic Command analyst.

Beijing's rapid large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons is a sign the Chinese military is moving away from its past defensive strategy toward the use of "nuclear coercion" to achieve Chinese Communist Party aims, such as the takeover of Taiwan, according to a think tank report authored by a Strategic Command analyst.

The navies of the United States and China are in a naval arms race as each turns out more unmanned surface and subsurface ships So far in 2022 China has produced the Zhu Hai Yun, a 2,000-ton ship that carries up to fifty unmanned submarine, surface and

The five new Orca subs will carry anti-ship mines like the new Hammerhead and other covert payloads.

The Orca extra-large unmanned underwater vehicle could ply the world’s oceans.