"20,000 Drones Under the Sea" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 14 Jul 2018 8:01 p.m. PST |
More than century ago, Jules Verne envisioned what an individual might do if able to operate uncontested in the underwater domain. Captain Nemo, the iconic antihero in Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , harnessed his wealth and engineering genius to build the ultimate disruptive machine of his time, the submarine Nautilus . Today, the undersea domain is an active arena of competition, but nonstate actors do not play a significant role. That almost certainly will change in the next decade, and the United States is not prepared for the threat this new reality will present… link |
| emckinney | 14 Jul 2018 11:33 p.m. PST |
Are you trying to usurp Tango's role??? |
| Lion in the Stars | 16 Jul 2018 6:27 p.m. PST |
Hah. It takes an *obscene* amount of money to play under the ocean. Underwater-capable drones need to be a lot smarter than flying drones, and far stronger (even assuming lots of free-flooding areas). Can't exactly get GPS coordinates all the time! You end up with costs on par with modern civilian aircraft, multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars, per drone. If you don't spend that much per drone, well, you end up losing so many drones that your cost-per-successful-drone is at least as high and usually an order of magnitude higher. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 18 Jul 2018 6:12 p.m. PST |
Are you trying to usurp Tango's role??? I was testing a forum upgrade, actually.  |
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