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November 17, 2015 12:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OhHvzLefqwA/us-navy-is-planning-to-launch-a-squadron-of-underwater-drones-by-2020
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020
Hallie Siegel writes: According to the non-profit Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Applications Center, there are over 250 different configurations of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) in service today. That number is likely to grow in the coming years as the technology improves — note that the US Navy has made UUVs a priority and is planning to launch a whole squadron of them by 2020. Dan Gettinger from the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College gives an overview of this technology.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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