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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by gdy on Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:39AM (#19177579)
Do you necessarily need a sub to kill another sub once it's detected?

Surface navy and aviation could do the job.

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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by yourapostasy on Saturday February 16, 2019 @03:02AM (#19177633)
We don't have adequate wartime data to know for sure one way or the other. Historically, there has only been one underwater combat engagement between submarines [1] openly acknowledged (there might be classified engagements). However, even generously accounting for all submarine lost at sea accident reports as hostile engagements doesn't yield sufficient numbers of engagements to know what would happen with today's subs between each other in open warfare.

Let's hope it stays that way indefinitely.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-true-story-th...

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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by rockxloose on Sunday February 17, 2019 @06:01AM (#19183834)
What do magic realists say?

[1] https://jamestown.org/program/a-smarter-battlefield-pla-conc...

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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by AnimalMuppet on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:04PM (#19181760)
The target doesn't have to be a sub. The sensors could detect a surface vessel, and the sub could be the way of attacking it.
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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by gdy on Sunday February 17, 2019 @02:31AM (#19183168)
A bomber can do it cheaper and faster.
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