Posted on Apr 7, 2023
The Navy Wants Drones to Counter China’s Gray-Zone Moves
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Even as the U.S. Navy expands its drone experiments, its top leaders say the fleet has much to learn before deploying unmanned systems to defend Taiwan from possible attack in the next few years. But they said that lessons from South America’s seas will help the Navy to refine and build intelligence-gathering and -sensing missions that will be highly relevant to countering China.
“The technologies and platforms we are bringing to the region will address several significant challenges,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said during a Tuesday speech at the Sea-Air-Space conference outside Washington, D.C. “These include narcotics and human trafficking, as well as economic and ecological harm caused by illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, which the People's Republic of China with their distant water fishing fleet participates, in both the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic Coast.”
“The technologies and platforms we are bringing to the region will address several significant challenges,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said during a Tuesday speech at the Sea-Air-Space conference outside Washington, D.C. “These include narcotics and human trafficking, as well as economic and ecological harm caused by illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, which the People's Republic of China with their distant water fishing fleet participates, in both the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic Coast.”
The Navy Wants Drones to Counter China’s Gray-Zone Moves
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."We have been doing testing as you know, during major exercises, including RIMPAC and we expect to do more with allies and partners as those as those as that dialogue continues. I think today's announcement might be a harbinger for, you know, for or a call to action, if you will, for others to join us,” he said.
Gilday said that the Navy has put more 50,000 nautical miles on large unmanned surface vessels during tests. “We have a high degree of confidence in the AI's ability to follow rules and to avoid traffic, to stay within the channel when required. We've made transits from the Gulf Coast of the United States repeatedly through the Panama Canal and up around to...California. That said, it's a whole ’nother level that you allude to, to give an unmanned vessel a mission and then have that vessel report back ‘mission complete’.”
..."We have been doing testing as you know, during major exercises, including RIMPAC and we expect to do more with allies and partners as those as those as that dialogue continues. I think today's announcement might be a harbinger for, you know, for or a call to action, if you will, for others to join us,” he said.
Gilday said that the Navy has put more 50,000 nautical miles on large unmanned surface vessels during tests. “We have a high degree of confidence in the AI's ability to follow rules and to avoid traffic, to stay within the channel when required. We've made transits from the Gulf Coast of the United States repeatedly through the Panama Canal and up around to...California. That said, it's a whole ’nother level that you allude to, to give an unmanned vessel a mission and then have that vessel report back ‘mission complete’.”
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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