Will Hunter-Killer Underwater Drones Be the End of Submarines?
Will Hunter-Killer Underwater Drones Be the End of Submarines? If operationalized, drone swarms are too numerous and cheap to be efficiently destroyed using most current military systems. Here's What You Need To Remember: Swarms of cheap drones both above and below the water (unmanned underwater vehicles, or UUVs) may pose the biggest and most proximate threat to submarines. After a post-Cold War hiatus, navies across the planet are pursuing new anti-submarine capabilities as a submarine arms race accelerates in the Pacific Ocean. Developing technologies like quantum magnetometers and sate...
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