{"id":118968,"date":"2021-01-28T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-marines-are-loading-this-mean-looking-boat-with-kamikaze-drones"},"modified":"2021-01-28T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T22:24:41","slug":"the-marines-are-loading-this-mean-looking-boat-with-kamikaze-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/the-marines-are-loading-this-mean-looking-boat-with-kamikaze-drones","title":{"rendered":"The Marines Are Loading This Mean-Looking Boat With Kamikaze Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zzzOH5fBAqw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the U.S. and China ever come to blows, this vessel will play a big part in the battle.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The U.S. Marine Corps is taking a completely new tack to providing fire support during amphibious landings: unmanned boats stocked full of suicide drones.<\/p>\n<p>The shipbuilder Metal Shark has announced it\u2019s building a new type of unmanned surface vessel, which the Marines plan to equip with loitering munitions. Such a boat would act as a mobile fire support platform, servicing calls for fire with salvos of drones equipped with explosive charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the U.S. and China ever come to blows, this vessel will play a big part in the battle. The U.S. Marine Corps is taking a completely new tack to providing fire support during amphibious landings: unmanned boats stocked full of suicide drones. The shipbuilder Metal Shark has announced it\u2019s building a new type of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118968","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=118968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}