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Re:U.S. Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine by gress on Friday December 06, 2013 @04:00PM (#6863768)
Why are drones supposed to be cheap?
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Re:U.S. Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine by TallGuyShort on Friday December 06, 2013 @04:04PM (#6863796)
It's one of their main competitive advantages. If a drone launch starts costing millions of dollars, the benefit it has over a traditional aircraft fly-over starts to diminish.
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Re:U.S. Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine by gress on Friday December 06, 2013 @10:13PM (#6865295)
I don't see traditional aircraft taking off from a submerged submarine any time soon. That would seem to be an alternative advantage to offset the cost.
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Re:U.S. Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine by ZushiZack on Saturday December 07, 2013 @01:00AM (#6865650)
actually, the Japanese already invented that in WWII - http://www.nbcnews.com/science/sunken-japanese-wwii-submarin...
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Re:U.S. Navy Launches a Drone from a Submerged Submarine by scotth on Saturday December 07, 2013 @07:58AM (#6866288)
Not true. You forgot the submerged part.
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