AUVSI 2019: Unmanned technology driving naval change
With the US Navy (USN) looking to spend up to $1 billion in the procurement and utilisation of unmanned maritime systems in the coming years, the service is eyeing a distributed lethality concept as a way to counter rising challenges to its decades-long dominance of the high seas.
The fielding of larger unmanned systems – both surface and subsurface – will serve as a way to bolster naval capabilities as countries, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, increase fleet numbers to a degree that quantitative advantages previously held by the USN are diminished.
Speaking to delegates at AUVSI’s Xponential in Chicago,
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