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Sea Hunter Unmanned Ship Continues Autonomy Testing as NAVSEA Moves Forward with Draft RFP

posted by mrpg on Thursday May 02 2019, @09:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the waterproof dept.

MrPlow writes:

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[...] Robert Brizzolara, the MUSV program manager, told USNI News on April 25 at the Defense Department's annual Lab Day at the Pentagon that ONR has been focused on building an extensive body of evidence to prove to the fleet the reliability of the MUSV hull and the autonomous control system that lets it sense its way through the seas.

[...] The Navy has made clear it expects unmanned ships, aircraft and underwater vehicles to play a major role in future operations, and the service is devoting significant funds to developing and fielding these vehicles as fast as research and industry can manage. The medium USV is envisioned to be primarily a sensing platform for the fleet, while a large USV the Navy is now aggressively pursuing would be a remote shooter.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:11PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:11PM (#838020)

    Your war in Afghanistan and Iraq cost half a million people their lives.

    The well functioning democratic countries of the world is those who have been left alone by US military intervention.

    Your country is not a power of peace.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:27PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:27PM (#838093) Journal

    Your war in Afghanistan and Iraq cost half a million people their lives.

    And? I'm sure I can find bar fights that killed people too. If you don't care how many people actually died in wars (and given that you're claiming half a million means you're using those studies with the flawed methodology which greatly overestimate deaths from the two wars in question), then what does it matter if half a million imaginary people died or 70 million real people (the actual body count from the Second World War using much better tools of analysis)?

    Also keep in mind the quote:

    In some years in the early post-war era, around half a million people died in wars

    That's half a million bodies with bullets in them per year, not half a million people who someone was willing to allege died of something during the course of a war.

    At some point, if you're serious, you'll need to talk about how many died not just in your cherry picked example, but in all the wars. And good news, is that stuff is down a lot.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:54PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:54PM (#838115)

      I'll just let your posts speak for themselves. Nice talking to you khallow.

      Peace.