[LINK] Robot Submarines for Australian Navy

[Tom Worthington]

On 9/15/25 14:04, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

>> Billion-dollar coffins? New technology could make oceans transparent 
>> and Aukus submarines vulnerable 

Hopefully, the robot submarines will improve rapidly to the point where 
the AUKUS submarines will be cancelled, before they are built. At that 
point the government can blame it all on a predecessor, or claim this is 
a planned enhancement: "AUKUS 2.0".

> or will they have no people and be remotely controlled ...

No, unless there is a breakthrough in underwater communication, it will 
not be possible to communicate with submarines continuously. But they 
would not need much intelligence conduct a programmed mission. As the 
submarines are unlikely to be equipped with torpedoes or missiles, there 
will not need to be a Human-in-the-loop. They could lay sea mines, as 
these are preprogrammed anyway.


-- 
Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au
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