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Radio News: Radio-controlled drones take to the seas
May 08, 2016 10:23 pm
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Boing Boing reports that the U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, now have a radio-controlled drone for the seas. The Navy's first ship without an on-board crew is a 132-foot Antisubmarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel called Sea Hunter, which cost around $120 million to build. The military claims new editions will only cost $20 million, and will be used to track enemy submarines, and will be testing off the California coast the next two years, starting with on-board personnel, just in case of some sort of failure over the radio waves.
Boing Boing reports that the U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, now have a radio-controlled drone for the seas. The Navy's first ship without an on-board crew is a 132-foot Antisubmarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel called Sea Hunter, which cost around $120 million to build. The military claims new editions will only cost $20 million, and will be used to track enemy submarines, and will be testing off the California coast the next two years, starting with on-board personnel, just in case of some sort of failure over the radio waves.