May 26, 2021
The Orca: This Autonomous Submarine Will Fight the Wars of the Future
Posted by Jason Blain in categories: military, robotics/AI
The 50-ton Voyager was developed by Boeing’s PhantomWorks division, which is devoted to advanced new technologies, succeeding a series of smaller Echo Seeker and Echo Ranger UUVs. The 15.5-meter long Echo Voyager has a range of nearly 7500 miles. It has also deployed at sea up to three months in a test, and theoretically could last as long as six months.
Supposedly, Voyager also can dive as deep as 3350 meters—while few military submarines are (officially) certified for dives below 500 meters.
And it isn’t the only robot submarine in the works.
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