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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by ceejayoz on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:49AM (#19178524)
It's a large, heavy object being easily interfered with.

(The parent comment said "It weighs 50 tons and is 51 feet could anything really mess with that?" An EP-3 weighs 67.5 tons and is 105 feet long.)

The same applies to submarines and a net around the propeller.

(It's also a good example of the sort of diplomatic fuss that ensues after this sort of incident, too.)

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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by shkkmo on Sunday February 17, 2019 @03:47PM (#19186798)
Ok, so all you have to do to interfere with the robotic sub is crash a jet into it?

Posting a link to a completely unrelated article with 0 explanation is idiotic, especially when there are plenty of examples of incidents that actually involve submarines.

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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by ceejayoz on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:05PM (#19186909)
The point: "It's long and heavy" isn't any sort of good reason to believe it can't be messed with. That incident also demonstrates China's willingness to play chicken with US assets.

Throw a steel cable into its prop, get too close using another sub or two, etc.

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