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Posted: 4/8/2024 11:27:18 PM EDT
Manta Ray: Mastering the Deep |
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Give it some torpedoes and electronic/accoustic signatures for enemy subs and ships..
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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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The government must have tired of waiting for Orca and Echo series UUV's.
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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The government must have tried of waiting for Orca and Echo series UUV's. 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. |
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That top down CGI at the end had 4 props cavitating like crazy lol
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Quoted: The government must have tried of waiting for Orca and Echo series UUV's. View Quote "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 |
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Quoted: Orca dates to 2011, and probably earlier in internal PowerPoint collections. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The government must have tried of waiting for Orca and Echo series UUV's. 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. |
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Quoted: "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 View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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. Use this USNI article to decide whether 64% is accurate reporting - https://news.usni.org/2022/09/28/gao-navys-xluuv-undersea-minelayer-242m-over-budget-3-years-behind-schedule Orca and the Echo series aren't the only under sea projects at Boeing, and there should be no surprise from poor performance by the company once again fiddling outside competence. Ingalls is no doubt getting well managed. The Badger wheeled vehicle is the same sort of failure, a bloated mess; I was particularly entertained by wheels that rub on the body work during a turn, and the weight. In the end it isn't really capable of more than a 1940's Jeep . 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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How is it controlled? Program course/mission wait for it to come back?
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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.... |
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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. |
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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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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes From that article: 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! |
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Quoted: From that article: That's pretty cool stuff right there! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: From that article: 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! |
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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.
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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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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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. |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 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. |
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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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Quoted: Hope they put one in the Black Sea and use it to sink what’s left of the pathetic Russian fleet there. Fuck Putin! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Hope they put one in the Black Sea and use it to sink what’s left of the pathetic Russian fleet there. Fuck Putin! Quoted: 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 |
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Quoted: The prototype Manta Ray glider may only have two props. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: That top down CGI at the end had 4 props cavitating like crazy lol It was more the fact the stealthy sub was cavitating like a mofo and being all loud as hell in their promotional material to begin with than the prop number |
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Quoted: You completely lost me. Care to elaborate? Help me understand. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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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