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DARPA Hydra: An Unmanned Sub Mothership to Deploy Drones
garymortimer tips more news about the rise of our robotic overlords. DARPA is now investigating military drone submarines as launch platforms for UAVs. Quoting John Keller at Military & Aerospace Electronics: "The Hydra program will develop and demonstrate an unmanned undersea system with a new kind of unmanned-vehicle delivery system that inserts UAVs and UUVs stealthily into operational environments to respond quickly to situations around the world without putting U.S. military personnel at risk. The Hydra large UUV is to use modular payloads inside a standardized enclosure to deploy a mix of UAVs and UUVs, depending on the military situation. Hydra will integrate existing and emerging technologies in new ways to create an alternate means of delivering a variety of payloads close to where they're needed, DARPA officials say."
Soon years of playstation experience will be worth putting on the resume!
Right?
This reminds me during WW2 Japenese developed subs that could surface and open a tiny hangar which launched 1-3 small planes. Sometimes scouts, sometimes bombers. The planes could land on water next to the sub, which had a crane to lift the plane back into the hangar.
Proof that the US government truly has gone evil: They've named their latest drone carrier after the terrorist organization in GI Joe.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Does it require 25 minerals to build these smaller drones? And can I set the "underwater carrier" to auto-build them?
sudo make me a sandwich
Now you can't even be bothered to show up to your own wars.
Carrier subs are the future. Aircraft carriers would still have a place, but covert plane launches would be useful as hell.
I'd like to get back to uses of taxes that will have some benefit rather than projects to aid in killing people whose leaders are not currently popular with us.
Great a Single Point of failure and a single target to destroy.
CobrAAAAAAAAAA!
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because robots are committing violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell, "Notes on Nationalism"
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The UAV portion launched from this can not land on it, so it's disposable?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Former US Navy submariner here,
So imagine that we build 100,000 of these things and they all come with solar cells on top. We deploy them all over the world, along every coast line, and they just sit there, for years, waiting for us to need them. We could deploy them locally from our submarines or launch them from our bases in Guam, Hawaii, or the East Coast and let them swim to their destinations. Some of them are for surveillance, armed with UAVs, and some of them, like current aerial drones, are armed with missiles or torpedoes. Think of them as minefields that can dive and hide or go offensive if ordered to. It sounds like an awful idea to me.
So, by payload, do we mean something like, enough dandelion seeds to cover my ex's lawn?
... they give unmanned vehicles nuclear / ICBM capabilities? How long before we see a takeover by a hostile/terrorist state of such an unmannded carrier and actually resulting in a REAL war. Computers shouldn't be put in control of heavy weaponry. The good old finger on mechanical trigger should do the job. We here on slashdot should realize the implications of giving computers "control" over WMD (which include ICMB). Doesn't this worry anybody here on slashdot? Some of us are capable of finding a buffer-overflows (like you find water in your fridge), analyzing the memory, writing a good payload exploit... This is soo bad. Besides all this, its easier to make mistakes, hurt innocents when you are not in the line of fire. Its easier to press that enter/execute button and kill people. It takes away a lot of the moral issues. When war becomes a videogame, where is the moral oversight.... sigh..
This reminds me during WW2 Japenese developed subs that could surface and open a tiny hangar which launched 1-3 small planes. Sometimes scouts, sometimes bombers. The planes could land on water next to the sub, which had a crane to lift the plane back into the hangar.
they were intended to drop incendiary bombs on forests.
There was also a plan to drop fleas infected with bubonic plague on U.S. cities. Test bombings were conducted on the Chinese cities of Ningbo and Changde by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Proof that the US government truly has gone evil: They've named their latest drone carrier after the terrorist organization in GI Joe.
Either that or a small predatory water anima. Hydra
Both the DARPA project and this critter are named after the mythological water beast with many heads, a beast the Hercules battled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
So DARPA likes to play Carrier Command for real? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Command
Carrier has arrived!