I am not sure that this is necessarily a good idea. The US Navy is developing unmanned robotic guard ships which could be used to patrol coastal waters. An interesting idea, but getting the deployment right will be a real challenge.
Roboships can be used to help keep the US more secure. These ships can be run without a human being and they have the ability to make contact with possible intruders. “He will put himself in a position between the point he is defending and us,” said Capt. Carl Conti the director of Fleet Experimentation. He is actually in it, an unmanned surface vessel and a floating robot. These are not remote controlled boats like their predecessors of the 20th.
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Well it is an idea be just not that effective. What we need to do rapidly and in large numbers are vessels on the style of the PLAN Houbei Type 022. The current LCS program can be cancelled and those existing vessels used as “motherships” to squadrons of “Type 022’s”. Of course this will not be done but it is a thought!!
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Agree with your comments. The article was vague on what the robot’s response to incoming craft was. Robotic craft lack the same thing traffic lights cams do, a human’s discretion. I cant imagine a wayward sailboat being blown out of the water simply due to an inexperienced sailor’s inability to gybe.
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