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."

Comments

Video games are real!! Only this ones kill.

[m1ndcrash]

Soon years of playstation experience will be worth putting on the resume!

Proof!

[girlintraining]

Proof that the US government truly has gone evil: They've named their latest drone carrier after the terrorist organization in GI Joe.

Re:Proof!

[Sparticus789]

You must not have bash installed on your computer. My sarcasm-off.sh script generally compiles and informs users that sarcasm is no longer being used. Are you running a ksh system?

If only

[Sparticus789]

Does it require 25 minerals to build these smaller drones? And can I set the "underwater carrier" to auto-build them?

lazy

[maliqua]

Now you can't even be bothered to show up to your own wars.

Re:Japanese Subs

[datavirtue]

"Jap?"