Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Stealth Tactic - Cloaking In Dense Sea Life
Submarine technology has sure come a long way since the old Nazi U-boats of World War II.
There are specially designed propellers, new materials, and better tactics which make it very difficult to find silent running submarines.
Nuclear submarines and diesel electric submarines can often be quite quiet when trying to hide.
Of course, the detection technologies have also gotten better, merely due to our better understanding of physics in our known world, and we are learning more each and every day.
Interestingly enough, my grandfather DK Winslow did work with Naval Research back in the day, and it's amazing how far they have come.
Still, there is more to do, and now with the advent of better robotics technologies we are designing submarines which are unmanned and can get just about anywhere we need them to go.
They can cloak themselves, absorb sonar, and since they are smaller because they don't have a crew, they are much harder to see and find.
There was an interesting article posted to the Dark Government website on November 25, 2012 titled; "DARPA Researching Drone Submarines," which stated; "Surveillance drones in US airspace are soon to be inevisible, but what about unmanned vehicles patrolling the seas? The Pentagon is working hard at perfecting a stealth underwater drone for maritime monitoring.
" Interestingly enough, I have discussed this at our think tank, and one of the tactics we have decided would probably be the best would be to follow whales, fish schools, and cloak as a sea mammal, or other sea life.
That would help get in close, and with the right materials could give off a similar signature, or multiple signatures depending on what it was pretending to be while it gave off its new sonar signature.
Is it possible to run completely silent in an unmanned underwater vehicle - certainly, especially one which is quite small.
It's hard enough to find something on the surface of the ocean using satellite, imagery, so trying to find something in the 3-D space of the very dense water of the ocean when it is completely submerged is extremely difficult.
These new tricks, tactics, and engineering designs will no doubt be copied by our adversaries, and in many ways it will spur on a new innovative and technically advanced underwater robotic arms race.
This is certainly good news for all those engineering students graduating from robotics school, because there is a real need.
Being able to interact with sea life is important to understanding our environment, and even more important for national security.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
There are specially designed propellers, new materials, and better tactics which make it very difficult to find silent running submarines.
Nuclear submarines and diesel electric submarines can often be quite quiet when trying to hide.
Of course, the detection technologies have also gotten better, merely due to our better understanding of physics in our known world, and we are learning more each and every day.
Interestingly enough, my grandfather DK Winslow did work with Naval Research back in the day, and it's amazing how far they have come.
Still, there is more to do, and now with the advent of better robotics technologies we are designing submarines which are unmanned and can get just about anywhere we need them to go.
They can cloak themselves, absorb sonar, and since they are smaller because they don't have a crew, they are much harder to see and find.
There was an interesting article posted to the Dark Government website on November 25, 2012 titled; "DARPA Researching Drone Submarines," which stated; "Surveillance drones in US airspace are soon to be inevisible, but what about unmanned vehicles patrolling the seas? The Pentagon is working hard at perfecting a stealth underwater drone for maritime monitoring.
" Interestingly enough, I have discussed this at our think tank, and one of the tactics we have decided would probably be the best would be to follow whales, fish schools, and cloak as a sea mammal, or other sea life.
That would help get in close, and with the right materials could give off a similar signature, or multiple signatures depending on what it was pretending to be while it gave off its new sonar signature.
Is it possible to run completely silent in an unmanned underwater vehicle - certainly, especially one which is quite small.
It's hard enough to find something on the surface of the ocean using satellite, imagery, so trying to find something in the 3-D space of the very dense water of the ocean when it is completely submerged is extremely difficult.
These new tricks, tactics, and engineering designs will no doubt be copied by our adversaries, and in many ways it will spur on a new innovative and technically advanced underwater robotic arms race.
This is certainly good news for all those engineering students graduating from robotics school, because there is a real need.
Being able to interact with sea life is important to understanding our environment, and even more important for national security.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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