3 Companies Building America's Unmanned Navy Vessels
I don't know who at the Pentagon decided to call America's new fleet of uncrewed naval warships "Ghost Fleet Overlord." But whoever came up with the name deserves a raise, a promotion, and a job with a major advertising firm just as soon as they retire from the Navy.
For more than a decade, the U.S. Navy has been working to build a robot navy, beginning with unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater drones launched from manned warships, and later scaling up to entire autonomous warships. It's the latter we'll be talking about today -- the autonomous warships of Ghost Fleet Overlord, which sailed in all its robotic majesty into Sydney Harbour in Australia last month in a coordinated demonstration of how far America's robot navy has already come.
Pentagon watchers will want to know that this robotic fleet has grown from just one single testbed vessel seven years ago (the "Sea Hunter," America's first robot warship). It now comprises four named unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), as the Ranger, Mariner, and Seahawk have joined the fleet. Investors, meanwhile, may be more interested in knowing which defense contractors are building these robot vessels. Because it's becoming more and more obvious that the Navy likes these ships -- and wants to buy more of them.
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