"U.S. Navy Unveils An Unmanned Boat With A 50-Caliber " Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 May 2019 10:31 p.m. PST |
….Machine Gun. "The Navy and Textron showed off for the first time Monday a weaponized prototype of a small unmanned surface vessel (USV) designed to revolutionize sea warfare. Textron principal systems engineer Gary Hartman said the display of the 40-foot Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle, docked at the annual Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Maryland, is the first of the boat mounted with a 50-caliber machine gun and a housing for Hellfire missiles. The weapons display is the outgrowth of the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement signed last year by Naval Sea Systems Command and Textron "to develop and integrate surface warfare payloads onto the Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle."…"
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| Andrew Walters | 10 May 2019 8:11 a.m. PST |
Neat. They don't give its speed. If they can make these cheap enough they can have eyes everywhere, and the .50 cal is a very effective system. They don't mention the speed except to say it is "enhanced". These will make neat escorts for larger, manned boats. |
| Tango01 | 10 May 2019 11:59 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)
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| Choctaw | 10 May 2019 12:11 p.m. PST |
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| Thresher01 | 10 May 2019 7:35 p.m. PST |
Call me when they mount a railgun on a drone. |
| Tango01 | 11 May 2019 11:36 a.m. PST |
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paints up some Israeli mortar vehicles.
