Looks like bubble-heads will become redundant sooner than later.
>The Orca is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is under development by Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) for the United States Navy.
>[...] capable of autonomous operation on missions up to several months in duration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_(AUV)
The Navy has been working on an autonomous anti-submarine drone too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Hunter
Even civilian ships are supposed to become uncrewed in the future, maybe seafaring as a profession is something that will get left behind by humanity.
>is under development
>the Navy has been working on
>ships are supposed to become uncrewed in the future
keep us posted!
love the .jpgs!
it was launched two years ago and typical work up time for any vessel is 2yrs, so..
You can have a shitty webm with dolphins from Boeing's twitter if you like.
So how does it generate power without anyone on board for maintenance over months and months?
>So how does it generate power without anyone on board for maintenance over months and months?
^batteries+diesel engine
that will be $75million+tax a piece
no refunds!
they should ask the japs for help, they've been running Li-Ion subs for a few years now.
>they should ask the japs for help, they've been running Li-Ion subs for a few years now.
^impressive
It is.
To note, the NCA LIB stands for Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide (LiNiCoAlO2). Whereas the SLH LIBs are Lithium Cobalt Oxide(LiCoO2).
The SLH LIBs are built to be the same size as the LABs in the previous generation subs.
Previous LABs were single cell whereas the new LIBs are 10 cells in 2 rows of 5 connected in series to a battery monitoring unit that can monitor the individual cell voltages and temps.
>the submarine is powered by NAACP_(SHIT-LIBS)
you cant even make it up anymore
Lithium Ion Batteries and Lead Acid Batteries, but sure make it /misc/ if you want i guess.
We weld in a single nuke with three months' worth of MREs and water
Nuclear reactors are actually pretty simple and can be modeled extremely well even over long periods of time. But the real answer is that it'll likely have a tender of sorts
it runs off diesel+lithium batteries
its right in the wikipedia
Oh lol. Still, there will probably be support ships that can do quick fixes at sea
>there will probably be support ships that can do quick fixes at sea
lol, no
the US decomissioned its tender fleet under obama
if naval assets need anything at sea, its back to the port, and not just any port, but specific ones at that
Thanks Obama
>Nuclear reactors are actually pretty simple
lol no
As technology go it really is simple.
Get rock together, water heat, make a turbine turn.
It's radioactivity that bring back the difficulty.
>But the real answer is that it'll likely have a tender of sorts
I've been on PrepHole too long. I misread "tender" as "tendie" and thought you were going to describe a process of enlisting NEETs as one man sub maintenance crews in exchange for AI cooked tendies.
it's an AIP engine and it's not meant to have the performance characteristics of a modern SSK let alone an SSN. These things will more or less be putting around at slow speeds and supporting recon duties typically assigned to SSNs and stuff like mine laying or placing sensors.
Why does Puccia have the smallest?
>muh dik reference
As expected from mutt addicted to Black person dicks
>that buoy concept
what's stopping a surface ship from having a flying radar by using a helium/hydrogen balloon as a "air buoy"? any navy tried anything like that?
>what's stopping a surface ship from having a flying radar by using a helium/hydrogen balloon as a "air buoy"? any navy tried anything like that?
^i dunno, I dont think anyone has ever tried it before
looks like room for french innvation!
That's no flying radar silly anon, that's just a weather balloon!
How are you going to cool the radar? It's on a balloon, cooling it is mandatory or it'll just set the balloon on fire.
>well I was thinking about a low powered radar that isn't hot
Then who wants it?
with pumps and radiators? it's a radar everyone will know it's there anyway so it doesn't matter if it's shit a ton of heat
however you could have a passive radar detector if you prefer being stealthier and smaller
the only advantage to a high altitude balloon radar is that it's really high for max coverage at lower cost and less risk than a proper AWAC
>with pumps and radiators?
No? It's a cord. To meaningfully have a radar that is useful in the sky it has to be thousands of feet into the air. Electricity is feasible up to that length but that is it. The balloon will otherwise in fact have to be its own unit.
>this Black person think that an electric wire around 15-25km in length is black magic
>greentext moron post
Like pottery.
>has no arguments left
I will accept your concession
>greentext moron post
Like pottery.
It will run into a lot of problems with wind, especially while moving. The Big blimp they had on BAF had to come down when ever it got a little windy. For a ship moving at over 20 knots, it would be nearly unusable.
A better solution is to separate the radar from the shooter. USV Mariner carries a virtual Aegis test system, likely for this purpose. The destroyer/cruiser will still carry it's own radar, but can limit emissions and therefore hide itself better. It also allows them to picket the emitter further ahead of the force, giving an effectively larger radar range to the surface warfare group.
the Nazis tried it with a tethered and manned auto gyro
I think the bot broke.
You are wrong.
*beep*
I just posted higher resolution picture.
*beep*
>Pump-Jet
how is a shrouded external propeller a pump-jet?
>how is a shrouded external propeller a pump-jet?
it can identify as anything it wants chud
>
is that way^
...sorry, I have to do better
>...sorry, I have to do better
>form related
i want this filled out & signed by your ma'am before 0800 tomorrow
The guy who makes these doss them in paint and basically makes up most of the internals.
>Boeing
ohnonononononononono
Where is the luuv
I don't think there is one.
The smaller unmanned vehicles are surface ships mostly. And the small/medium submarine drones can be launched by our larger SSNs or surface ships.
So the XLUUVs are the only category of unmanned underwater drones that are expected to operate independently (or at least COULD).
The problem is that you need a mothership, and right now nobody is looking to import some kind of mothership. Navies are only looking to turn their existing ships into sorta motherships.
Isn't there some kind of law that shops have to be manned or else they are fair game. I swear I read that in a click bait article somewhere.
is this why for no reason at all today i got ads for buildsubmarines dot com
The trimaran design of the anti-sub drone is kind of cool. (looks like there's a guy chilling at the bridge)
Did they bolt a small, white container to the deck?
Sensors on the ship have been pretty malleable over the ships life. The rear radar dome has been on the longest, so it's probably for navigation. The others near the center are probably in a state of development.
Also lmao that there's two life rings for a boat with one guy as the crew.
already leaking water xaxaxa*~~
can't jam a crewed vehicle, so a credible second strike capability will still have humans in boats somewhere. But autonomous submergible mobile missile platforms would be ebigg
There are some missions where you might not care about jamming. Just doing a patrol means that a convoy 200 miles behind the unmanned ships will be much better prepared if something suddenly jams a significant portion of those unmanned ships. At that point expending the effort to attack the unmanned ships and hard kill them becomes both necessary and another layer of battle the other side can grapple with, when really you want to attack that convoy.
>Boeing
Nope. At random times, the sub will rapidly surface due to Pajeet Java code.
So we’re getting our own Poseidon but it actually works?
ok, but now put a man in it