After a successful completion of the program for creation of the anti-submarine autonomous fighting ships (ACTUV) the DARPA agency has officially transferred to Management of naval researches of US Navies (ONR) a prototype of the anti-submarine Sea Hunter UAV for further use.
The vessel represents a sea trimaran 42 meters long. Now on its board still there is a crew, but in process of readiness of Sea Hunter will become completely autonomous. The submarines hunter will be able independently to carry out missions for thousands of miles in the high sea for three months then to come back to base.
It will always need to be manned, if they want it to return.
If we keep getting robots to fight our wars we'll never need to have a draft ever again. Maybe we should get our robots to fight their robots and just determine the outcome of our disputes that way rather than us piling up dead bodies on either side.
Wow nice ship
Geez...And I thought it was crazy driving in Phoenix and all these self driving cars...Google, Uber and more test driving and now SUBS!!! Awesome informative posts! Never knew!