{"id":108066,"date":"2020-06-02T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/to-compete-with-china-an-internal-pentagon-study-looks-to-pour-money-into-robot-submarines"},"modified":"2020-06-02T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:24:20","slug":"to-compete-with-china-an-internal-pentagon-study-looks-to-pour-money-into-robot-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/to-compete-with-china-an-internal-pentagon-study-looks-to-pour-money-into-robot-submarines","title":{"rendered":"To compete with China, an internal Pentagon study looks to pour money into robot submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-compete-with-china-an-internal-pentagon-study-looks-to-pour-money-into-robot-submarines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy is also developing a family of unmanned surface vessels that are intended to increase the offensive punch for less money, while increasing the number of targets the Chinese military would have to locate in a fight.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a push that earned the endorsement of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday in comments late last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that the future fleet has to include a mix of unmanned,\u201d Gilday said. \u201cWe can\u2019t continue to wrap $2 billion ships around 96 missile tubes in the numbers we need to fight in a distributed way, against a potential adversary that is producing capability and platforms at a very high rate of speed. We have to change the way we are thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy is also developing a family of unmanned surface vessels that are intended to increase the offensive punch for less money, while increasing the number of targets the Chinese military would have to locate in a fight. That\u2019s a push that earned the endorsement of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday in comments [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}