U.S. Navy: The Future Is Large Unmanned Surface Ships

America's emerging fleet of large unmanned surface warships (LUSVs) is designed to navigate the high seas and carry out complex missions coming over a secure switching network from a ground command center. These drones yet not everyone can. For example, they cannot refuel themselves.

Sam LaGrone writes about this on the USNI News portal of the US Naval Institute.

The future of the US Navy lies in large unmanned surface ships. But for now, for the foreseeable future, they will need small crews on board to perform tasks inaccessible to machines.

We assume the deployment of a small detachment of personnel. These people are not meant to directly control the ship.

- said Program Manager Captain Pete Small at the Sea Air Space 2021 Symposium.

He called the crew members who will serve on the unmanned marine vehicles "risk managers." They will begin to perform functions that are not yet automated or, in principle, are not available for automation.

It is assumed that the LUSV will be placed on launchers to enhance the missile power of cruisers, frigates and destroyers of the USS Constellation class, equipped with guided missiles.

Now the US military is working on the concept of surface drones with the help of two ghost ships Nomad and Ranger plying off the West Coast of the United States. Two more devices will join them soon.

Recently, the US Navy has relied on unmanned ships. Probably, with their help, the American military hopes to establish their dominance in the seas and oceans.

Comments

[Roma 1977]

I suggest calling them "inhuman" and not unmanned. "Pilots" is not about ships. It sounds scary.

[knn54]

Look at the COMPLETE teachings.

[hrych]

Quote: Roma-1977

I suggest calling them "inhuman"

While the Americans are fantasizing, Russia is doing. And what more inhuman Poseidon will make the entire enemy coast inhuman The future has already arrived and these are certainly not large surface troughs, but underwater and flying drones. That there is Poseidon, Sarma and Petrel. The next stage is not torpedoes and CDs of unlimited range, but weapons carriers based on them. According to Sarma, in fact, this has already been stated. We already have CR - torpedo carriers, a modification of the ZM-54 Caliber with a supersonic stage, in fact, a carrier of a solid-propellant rocket. Why not, ala Petrel, carry torpedoes and missiles. If you look further, then the development of all-average apparatuses. Those. an underwater drone rises, if not into space, then the stratosphere. By the way, the impudent people scoff at the UFO, then they will emerge from the water and fly up, then they will dive again.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: hrych

While Americans are fantasizing

And they did not take into account a couple of "Russian hackers" in this huge computer-lethal toy?
But seriously, I'm scared to think what a herd of Titanics, armed to the teeth, which there is no one to stop with a "stop-crane" in place, and the "keyboard" for 5000 kilometers from the gamer-operator is stuck ...

[Walking towards the light]

What kind of unmanned ship is this if it has a crew, albeit a small one, and where will they take so many "suicide bombers" into these crews?

[NDR-791]

Quote: Walking towards the light

What kind of unmanned ship is this if it has a crew, albeit a small one, and where will they take so many "suicide bombers" into these crews?

And this is not a crew, these are "risk managers" ... or is it "Risk managers" ??? And they will take them in the same place where they take the loaders for the abrashek - in Harlem

[Petrik66]

This is where the boys will wash some money. Artificial intelligence is a dark thing that cannot be researched. For ten years you can build a prototype, then sensibly explain to the congressmen why he launched a rocket across Mexico.

[rocket757]

U.S. Navy: The Future Is Large Unmanned Surface Ships

This is a rhetorical question ... they will do it differently, as they see fit, rational.

[Castro Ruiz]

This is the groundwork for the future when a full-fledged AI appears.

[Walking towards the light]

The US already has a program for the construction of underwater drones. The US Congress refuses to fund it. "The US Congress even announced its readiness to limit any funding for purchases of large unmanned surface ships until the naval command can provide lawmakers with evidence of the development of the corresponding corps. mechanical and electronic equipment that allows the apparatus to operate autonomously for at least 30 consecutive days.
Also in the US Congress they believe that the Navy should provide a reliable operating system with functionally integrated surveillance systems, electronic warfare, etc. Consequently, in a sense, the hands of the American Navy are tied. Congressmen, in turn, claim that they are trying to protect the command of the Naval Forces from possible mistakes. "The same questions arise about this project. The quote is taken from an article on" Vo "

[Avior]

The Samwolt fleet is hiccuping

[ViacheslavS]

When a full-fledged AI appears, most likely the world will simply change and maybe even humanity as such will not be, most likely we will not even notice the appearance of AI, this will be another evolutionary step.

It is generally "scary" to imagine AI in hardware, it does not know fatigue, its computational and mental abilities surpass any human ones.

[CommanderDIVA]

Given the fact that the United States is a maritime power, flooding its coastal waters with surface-to-water drones is a sensible thing, apparently without a serious analysis for the future and DARPs have not done it, in what, and in strategic analytics, the Americans have no equal

[alch3mist]

What else remains? Anticipating an imminent 100% podorization of the army and navy, if you don't want to, you switch to unmanned ships - otherwise they will sink.
PS: Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the ukrops had already begun to make claims on the Black Sea Fleet, the commander of this fleet said: "If the ship starts giving commands in Ukrainian, the ship will sink!"

[Pavel73]

The future belongs to everything unmanned. Big guys will sit at buttons and screens and play robot soldiers. And someday robots will get tired of it ...

[t-12]

And someday robots will get tired of it ...

The soldier people don't get bored. Why will robots get bored?

[Pavel73]

No, the officers love it, but the soldier people get bored, quickly. For the latter are servants, in contrast to the former. So are the robots.

[Babay Atasovich]

Quote: Pavel73

The future belongs to everything unmanned. Big guys will sit at buttons and screens and play robot soldiers. And someday robots will get tired of it ...

For a long time I watched the cartoon, where the essence of the idea is simple - cinematographers knocked out all the electronics on earth and earthlings chased alien plates on all kinds of pistons!
So here, the satellites will knock down and the "gamers" will come to the gamemover!

[iouris]

The future belongs to large unmanned states.

[carstorm 11]

Chronicles of predatory unmanned cities)))

[Pashhenko Nikolay]

I can even guess what color these risk managers will be.

[Mouse]

These drones do not do everything yet. For example, they cannot refuel on their own.

A man in the service of a robot ... The Matrix is ​​knocking on the door ...

[mongolian9999]

According to international law, a ship without a crew can be converted, in favor of the one who captured it, as a prize.

[Blackmokona]

Therefore, risk managers will sit

[Roma 1977]

"Zits-managers".

[Kerensky]

As long as there is a question of the fight for survivability, you cannot do without a crew.

[Shuttle]

Interestingly, what exactly do the designers consider to be non-automated on the designed Large Unmanned Surface Vessels (LUSV)?

I don't think they saw FEODOR.

[Blackmokona]

The problem is that Fedor, without people, cannot even take and hold things in his hands. The same Russian flag on the ISS was tied to his hands with electrical tape

[Flooding]

Quote: BlackMokona

The same Russian flag on the ISS was tied to his hands with electrical tape

do not mislead gullible citizens.
not tied with duct tape, but tied with nano-tape

[Shuttle]

Quote: BlackMokona

The problem is that Fedor, without people, cannot even take and hold things in his hands. The same Russian flag on the ISS was tied to his hands with electrical tape

It's okay - the avatar-Fedor would be quite enough to perform those "non-automated" operations.

[Machete]

Everything will be unmanned for them: planes, ships, helicopters, tanks, etc.
Some kind of utopia.
How are you going to fight?
Rivet the robots of the division?
To cleanse the Earth from people.

Not an army, but a bunch of fat nerds eating donuts behind monitors.

[sabakina]

I'm stupidly wondering how the electronics will fight for the survivability of the ship in the event of a serious torpedo or missile hit?

[Babay Atasovich]

Quote: sabakina

I'm stupidly wondering how the electronics will fight for the survivability of the ship in the event of a serious torpedo or missile hit?

With the "sos" signal!

[Ros 56]

And this grandmother said in two, they used to shoot militants. In life, everything is a little different.

[Xlor]

Quote: sabakina

I'm stupidly wondering how the electronics will fight for the survivability of the ship in the event of a serious torpedo or missile hit?

Perhaps it will turn on automatic fire extinguishing and automatic destruction of codes and conventional hard drives. Perhaps, depending on the damage, the automatic switching on of some kind of plaster covering the hole will work. You can still dream up ...

[Andrey Mansurov]

Yes bullshit. If it crashes, then no one will survive. And it would be better if there was nothing. Why all this? Not everyone has been killed yet? Let's kill our children and then take our own lives. Why live differently. Well, why?