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air craft carriers, battle ships and destroyers should have an ability
to deploy swarms of small torpedo sized autonomous underwater
vehicles in swarms . these vehicles cannot travel very fast so they
should be deployable by unmanned remotely piloted drones that are
controlled from the air craft
carrier. in this manner, the air craft
carrier can use the swarm to investigate any area within 500 miles of
its position.
consider a hypothetical carrier travelling across the pacific that is
going to take a planned route. the carrier wants to know if and
where there are enemy submarines in its path . of course the carrier
can only go 60 miles (knots an hour) ....it want to know if there is a
submarine 500 miles ahead of its current position (where it might be
in 12 hours or so) ....
launch a drone that goes a 500 hundred miles an hour, deploy the
swarm in the area that the carrier/battlehsip is interested in.
the swarm investigates by going down and finding if there are any
enemy submarine signals and come back up to the surface to convey
the data via radio linkto the mother ship directly, or via the drone.
the drones can be disposable, but more likley they can be designed
for reuse ..to be picked up by the mother ship, or possibly even the
drone itself. ( probably a more complicated design)
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if the AUVs are one-shot only, the whole thing might get a tad expensive, even for the military. |
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Also, the use of UAVs in this scheme means that the usage is severely limited by weather conditions. |
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And: The carrier would not only have to know whether there are any submarines at position B, but also in the path from A to B, and at any positions that might intercept this path in the following 12 hours. |
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As the scheme also foresees the armed conflict between a carrier-owning nation and a submarine-owning nation, the foreseeable expenses might be put to better use elsewhere. |
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