Comment on Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months agoThat’s just not true. The Navy has been working with drones for years now. Reuters is usually pretty reliable but they let industry reps highly exaggerate the situation.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Where does the article, or I state that US has 0 sea drones? They have around 100 as of now and a plan to double it with $500 million program, but it’s small numbers in comparison to the other countries that are investing heavily into them. You keep misconstruing what was reported.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dude, we sent Ukraine 700 loitering munition drones. We do not have “100 drones”. We have 100 USVs and UUVs which are generally larger and more logistically complex than a Switchblade or Predator. The idea that we’ve been sleeping on this is ridiculous, there are articles going back years about testing drones. And who has a lot of drones? Which Navy specifically is investing heavier than the US Navy in drones right now?