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Posted: 4/8/2024 11:27:18 PM EDT




Manta Ray: Mastering the Deep
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Fuck yeah
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[#2]
Give it some torpedoes and electronic/accoustic signatures for enemy subs and ships..
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Link Posted: 4/8/2024 11:43:01 PM EDT
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Paint it yellow and build a big ass sub with a huge garage door on the bottom so it can be launched in a moments notice.  
Extra points if it can fly through the air.
Kind of like this….

Link Posted: 4/8/2024 11:45:29 PM EDT
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I’m curious about what kind of missions it can undertake.  The glossy YouTube short is a tad short on details.  

I didn’t know NG did UUV work.
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Probably, I could have sworn I saw renderings of these things in a very poorly made CGI video that was part of a documentary about future weapons proposals in the early 2000s.
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Drones have changed modern warfare forever.
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They have folks that specialize in "undersea systems".
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 12:26:49 AM EDT
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"The government" isn't waiting on anything Echo, Orca perhaps. In fact, the first "Orca" XLUUV was delivered to the government in December, as referenced in the article below.

https://news.usni.org/2023/12/21/navy-receives-first-of-six-prototype-extra-large-orca-underwater-drones

Link Posted: 4/9/2024 12:30:52 AM EDT
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Orca dates to 2011, and probably earlier in internal PowerPoint collections.

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Probably, I could have sworn I saw renderings of these things in a very poorly made CGI video that was part of a documentary about future weapons proposals in the early 2000s.

Orca dates to 2011, and probably earlier in internal PowerPoint collections.

You're likely correct, however, that may technically be the Echo Voyager vehicle.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 12:32:10 AM EDT
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That top down CGI at the end had 4 props cavitating like crazy lol
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The prototype Manta Ray glider may only have two props.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:06:24 AM EDT
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Give it some missile tubes to launch SM6 or stingers and hellfires so it can sneak up to a beach and yeet missiles on runways and planes taking off
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:11:09 AM EDT
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How is it controlled? Program course/mission wait for it to come back?
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:14:02 AM EDT
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Hopefully, Iranian ships will start mysteriously sinking.

Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:16:20 AM EDT
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Attachment Attached File


Came here hoping we were talking about a resurgence in '80s kit cars.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:18:23 AM EDT
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I always wonder about the practical endurance of UUVs - at least, the ones that are larger and more complex than just a motor and a battery and a controller.  I mean, shit tends to break down when it's underwater. With no humans to fix issues (or prevent them), how long will those things really last?

I got a chuckle out of a book I was reading, where the Chinese supposedly built a bunch of unmanned attack subs and had them sleeping off the US west coast for months.   I'm sure the sub guys here could tell us how often shit breaks down, and that's with a full crew doing 24/7 maintenance.   Without a crew?   Yeah, right....
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:21:43 AM EDT
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Cool!  I bet it does things we can't imagine.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:59:46 AM EDT
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I had a friend a little over 10yrs ago who quit her position at a huge defense contractor and took a job working on UUVs. I had no idea what a UUV was, then when she explained it I called her an idiot for quitting. Boy, I suppose I was wrong.

*she was fucking one of the married vps at the previous place lol. I think he had to find a new gig too.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 11:21:31 AM EDT
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How big is Manta Ray?

Orca is huge
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 3:09:32 PM EDT
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Aliens
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Hope they put one in the Black Sea and use it to sink what’s left of the pathetic Russian fleet there.

Fuck Putin!
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 4:54:16 PM EDT
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The Mission Unlimited UUV Station combines Seatrec's Thermal Energy Pod, which extracts energy from the ocean's thermal gradient — meaning the difference in temperature between warmer mixed water near the surface and colder water below — and converts it to electricity


That's pretty cool stuff right there!
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 5:15:13 PM EDT
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in for the disappointment of how lame it really is
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That's pretty cool stuff right there!
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The Mission Unlimited UUV Station combines Seatrec's Thermal Energy Pod, which extracts energy from the ocean's thermal gradient   meaning the difference in temperature between warmer mixed water near the surface and colder water below   and converts it to electricity


That's pretty cool stuff right there!
Most likely a reverse peltier system. That puts out very low wattage though.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 5:45:28 PM EDT
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I'm surprised we don't already have a ton of these things roaming the oceans / ports but I guess it's so big and we probably already know where the interesting enemy vehicles are.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 6:18:51 PM EDT
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Retiring Ohios should fill its vertical tubes with ultra quiet electric drones. Arm them with sensors, torpedoes or mines and act as an underwater carrier. Drones can return to the mothership to recharge and also escort it.
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Or just use B-52's to saturate the area with sea mines then post the Poseidon and Reaper footage of the debris to TikTok to save the CCP the trouble of looking for their broken shit.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 8:34:53 PM EDT
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When was the contracted delivery date for the first eight (or four, or five, depending on your preference)?  In 2022 the project was three years late and 64% over budget.


Orca is one more example of construction of a mockup, not a functioning demonstrator, to sell a program.  There's a fair bit more involved than building a shell.



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The government must have tried of waiting for Orca and Echo series UUV's.



"The government" isn't waiting on anything Echo, Orca perhaps. In fact, the first "Orca" XLUUV was delivered to the government in December, as referenced in the article below.

https://news.usni.org/2023/12/21/navy-receives-first-of-six-prototype-extra-large-orca-underwater-drones


When was the contracted delivery date for the first eight (or four, or five, depending on your preference)?  In 2022 the project was three years late and 64% over budget.


Orca is one more example of construction of a mockup, not a functioning demonstrator, to sell a program.  There's a fair bit more involved than building a shell.



I'm aware of their performance and overall I agree with you.


Link Posted: 4/9/2024 8:40:08 PM EDT
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Ukraine needs these to destroy a certain bridge.
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How big is Manta Ray?

Orca is huge
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How big is Manta Ray?

Orca is huge
How big is at the Distro D level for now.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 8:43:29 PM EDT
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It's not lame, it's completely bad ass and I pray our government procures many of these.
Link Posted: 4/9/2024 8:52:04 PM EDT
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Why have it?  The military is not allowed to use it against any enemies.  Must be for domestic purposes.
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You completely lost me. Care to elaborate? Help me understand.
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Hope they put one in the Black Sea and use it to sink what’s left of the pathetic Russian fleet there.

Fuck Putin!
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Hope they put one in the Black Sea and use it to sink what’s left of the pathetic Russian fleet there.

Fuck Putin!

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Ukraine needs these to destroy a certain bridge.


Hell yeah we just need to send the Ukes another 20 billion in cash so they can buy a few

Totes worth it tho


Link Posted: 4/9/2024 10:04:11 PM EDT
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woah wait

are that dude FREEFALLE7 ???
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I bet I know how they are training the AI for these things
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You completely lost me. Care to elaborate? Help me understand.
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Why have it?  The military is not allowed to use it against any enemies.  Must be for domestic purposes.

You completely lost me. Care to elaborate? Help me understand.


Yeah, I really couldn't think of any domestic uses for something like this that wouldn't be satisfied better, faster and cheaper by hiring a violent thug, making sure he has a suitable blunt object and point at who you want to die.
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https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-05-01





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Those are two different units.

It doesn't look armed. What is the point? It can not trail and communicate.

Is there a defined purpose?
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