Autonomous Marine Vehicles Making Waves
October 11, 2018
Defense contractors are moving full speed ahead to develop self-driving submarines and surface vehicles tailored for dangerous or time-consuming missions such as waging antisubmarine warfare or clearing mines, looking to the day when the Navy will be buying fewer aircraft carriers and more seagoing robots. In Issues, an independent security analyst examined the government’s technical plans as well as the operational, legal, and diplomatic issues involved in deploying an array of autonomous marine vehicles.