Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance

An anonymous reader writes The Navy is testing a new underwater drone called GhostSwimmer, which is designed to a look like a shark and conduct surveillance work. It is being adapted by the chief of naval operations' Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC) project, Silent NEMO, in Norfolk, Va.. GhostSwimmer is 5 feet long and weighs almost 100 pounds. It can operate in water depths from 10 inches to 300 feet, and is designed to operate autonomously for long periods of time, according to the Navy.

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This is useless

[xevioso]

unless lasers are attached.

Re:This is useless

[wbr1]

I came here looking for -intelligent- laser jokes. Perhaps involving some sort of conspiracy/tinfoil hattery. I am sorely disappointed.

Re:FFS

[Irate Engineer]

You're assuming that the "editors" are actually reading this stuff before passing it on.

Re:HTML

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I think you wanted to say: "HTML, motherfucker, do you speak it?"

Re:FFS

[Lunix Nutcase]

samzenpus isn't even fully literate in his native language. So... probably not.

It's built by Boston Dynamics

[Required Snark]

Given their track record, it will probably work. They did the Big Dog and Cheetah quadrupeds and the PETMAN and Atlas humanoid robots.

Boston Dynamics is now owned by Google, so Google is now a direct provider of equipment to the US military. Maybe this means their motto has been modified from "Don't do evil" to "Don't avoid evil."

Re:It's built by Boston Dynamics

[stjobe]

It's built by Boston Engineering, not Boston Dynamics.

Also, it was developed as BIOSwimmer for the DHS orignially, the GhostSwimmer (PDF warning) for the navy is just a modified version.

Oh, and it's designed to resemble a tuna, not a shark.

We are going to need

[funwithBSD]

a bigger boat.

Re:Nearly there!

[CSG_SurferDude]

been there, done that. Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark https://www.youtube.com/watch?...