Roboats hunt 'mines' and 'submarines' on Ex Unmanned Warrior The Royal Navy's Unmanned Warrior roboat exercise is currently taking place off the coast of Scotland. Featuring about 40 autonomous systems – mostly seaborne, though including a handful of aerial vehicles as well – the exercise is partially running alongside the main Joint Warrior tri-Service exercise. The Unmanned Warrior …
The stupid cnuts at parliament (of all sides) just don't get it as usual.
The bad guys will have 1000's of automated sub killers following & hunting down our brand new old tech.
But I guess it's all about caring for the shareholders of the old tech builders and to hell with the people paying for it. We look hard and take your safety seriously. I call ballcocks.
> ER, they already have thousands of e.g. sonobouys and various other detection bits operating for those subs. Putting them in autonomous craft scarcely makes any difference.
Even more, putting them in autonomous craft simply means loads more noise to sift through.
They used to chuck thousands of sonar bouys out the back of Nimrods to track Russian subs in the north sea. I company I worked for in the 90s was involved in the automated database that recorded where they were dropped. Deployment by little drones isn't going to give that sort of coverage, and the sonar bouys only work when they at depth in the "sound channel", so how they get there isn't important.
Given that the only countries in the world that are conducting these trials happen to be the ones with the biggest overall military budget, I think that the "bad guys" are going to have a bit of trouble fielding thousands of automated anythings.
Unless we're talking about Russia or China, in which case, maybe.
But North Korea ain't gonna be automating anything any time soon, that's or sure.
I think that the "bad guys" are going to have a bit of trouble fielding thousands of automated anythings.
Equally, these "bad guys" don't have submarines or naval minelaying capability either. Those that do also have the electronic warfare systems to detect or jam communications with drones and robots.
"North Korea ain't gonna be automating anything any time soon"
Be that as it may, North Korea has demonstrated its ability to sink ships and submarines.
The problem with high tech anything is that the means to take it down is quite frequently low tech and low cost.
The winning formula for high tech _must_ be low enough cost to allow it to be cheaply deployed, or you have yet more F35s.
'What could possibly go wrong...'
Oddly, and I share your surprise, not a lot. These aren't logistics in the sense of RFA's refuelling ships at sea etc. basically they're used to transport personnel out to ships to save coming alongside, maintain bouys, act as vessels of interest to pick out of normal shipping etc. They took over from the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service in 2008 and so far appear to not have f***ed things up completely.
I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed. Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. They are ready enough to be your soldiers whilst you do not make war, but if war comes they take themselves off or run from the foe
Broadly speaking I'd agree, but there are some notable exceptions. The Ghurkas have an outstanding record of service in the British Army going back almost 200 years, and the Légion étrangère (the vast majority of whose members aren't French) have an equally outstanding record in serving France.
while the government – and the MoD in particular – is keen to spur on the domestic drone industry.
is why we can't have private radio control aircraft for much longer.
Thanks EASA, no agenda then, just safety issues eh?
I hope they find and prosecute that guy/girl/gust flying the plastic bag that hit that plane, could have given the pilot a nasty start. Much better to cripple all RC flying craft than have THAT happen again.
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