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The Military’s Robotic Ghost Ship Passes Critical Test – Defense One

How do you keep track of increasingly stealthy Russian, Chinese and Iranian submarines? If you’re the U.S. military, you build a robotic ghost ship to follow them around the high seas. In 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel-powered submarines.…

How do you keep track of increasingly stealthy Russian, Chinese and Iranian submarines? If you’re the U.S. military, you build a robotic ghost ship to follow them around the high seas.

In 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel-powered submarines. The program was dubbed Anti-submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV.

via The Military’s Robotic Ghost Ship Passes Critical Test – Defense One.

While it’s an interesting project, and an innovative approach, this isn’t how you counter diesel electric subs.

You mine their home ports before they deploy.

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  1. timactual

    “It will be able to transit by itself across thousands of kilometers of ocean and it can deploy for months at a time. It can go out, find a diesel-electric submarine and just ping on it,””

    Gee, it’s so simple I wonder why nobody thought of this before.

    Awfully big batteries for a 132 ft. boat. And a heckuva lot of software to write.

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