On 7/4/23 14:29, Karl Auer wrote:
... will not remain vulnerable ...
Better protection against drones no doubt will be developed. However, there is no getting away from a submarine being a large target, which has a lot of money, and people invested in it, while a drone is a small, relevantly cheap, disposable weapon.
... these (as yet essentially non-existent) drones.
Australia's underwater drone factory in Sydney has turned out its first prototype: https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/first-anduril-prototype-ghost-shark-drone-sub-delivered-to-aussies-3-months-early/
The ship to test them is being fitted out in Singapore. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-08/defence-spends-110-million-on-second-hand-vessel/102201502
... might include submarines being able to launch their own drone swarms ...
Yes, I mentored a team in the Navy Warfare Innovation Workshop 2020, investigating how to counter drone swarms: https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2020/12/navy-warfare-innovation-workshop-2020.html
Nothing stays the same for long except human stupidity, which reaches its apotheosis not (as many believe) in politics, but in war.
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