A large, armed, surface-patrolling, submarine-hunting unmanned vessel, operating in a
distributed capacity
teamed with manned combatants and ops centers, launches a small fleet of autonomous drone boats
well forward in the fight to counterattack newly discovered enemy missile launch facilities at previously undetectable ranges … made possible by a new generation of highly-sensitive, discriminating ship-based radar technology.
Or … perhaps a medium-range ballistic missile, small enemy attack drone or approaching anti-ship cruise missile was detected by
unmanned vessels at ranges well beyond current line-of-sight radar systems? Manned vessels, o
perations centers, or even ground control stations at safe stand-off distances, would be in a position to destroy enemies with much lower risk and have a greatly expanded time window with which to make crucial attack and defense determinations.
The powerful radar could be made more compact and put onto drone boats.
Imagine an armed, surface-patrolling, submarine-hunting large, unmanned surface vessel (USV). Such a warship could operate in a distributed capacity teamed with manned combatants and command centers. The USV could even launch a small fleet of autonomous drone boats to counterattack newly-discovered enemy missile launch facilities at previously undetectable ranges. This kind of attack and warfare is being made possible by a new generation of highly-sensitive, discriminating ship-based radar technology.
Or perhaps a medium-range ballistic missile, small enemy attack drone or anti-ship cruise missile was detected by unmanned vessels at ranges well beyond current line-of-sight radar systems? Manned vessels, Operations Centers, or even ground control stations at safe stand-off distances, would be in position to destroy such enemies with much lower risks. Moreover, the far-away human commanders and sailors would have
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