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DARPA Hydra: An Unmanned Sub Mothership to Deploy Drones

Posted by Unknown on from the programmed-to-exterminate-commie-dolphins dept.

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."

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  1. Tired of this use of my taxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  2. Paraphrasing Orwell by mi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because robots are committing violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell, "Notes on Nationalism"

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    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  3. Re:Hail Hydra by Culture20 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shoot down one drone and two more will take its place.