"The U.S. Navy Is Pushing Fast Development, Early" Topic

…Deployment Of Unmanned Warships

"The question is what to do about it. The Navy is pursuing many paths to preserving maritime superiority, such as increasing its stores of long-range anti-ship missiles in the region and shifting more stealthy attack subs to the Chinese littoral. But those measures by themselves won't arrest the rise of Chinese military power. Something unusual will be needed to successfully counter Beijing's ambitions.

At the moment, the leading candidate seems to be unmanned warships. In 2016, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson unveiled a blueprint for maintaining U.S. maritime supremacy that prominently featured autonomous warships, both submarines and surface vessels, as a potential way of multiplying U.S. naval power. The Navy's top uniformed leader issued a revised version of the blueprint in December of last year, committing his service to getting several types of unmanned warships under contract by the middle of the next decade…"
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