{"id":123038,"date":"2021-05-26T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-orca-this-autonomous-submarine-will-fight-the-wars-of-the-future"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:23:05","slug":"the-orca-this-autonomous-submarine-will-fight-the-wars-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-orca-this-autonomous-submarine-will-fight-the-wars-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"The Orca: This Autonomous Submarine Will Fight the Wars of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-orca-this-autonomous-submarine-will-fight-the-wars-of-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 50-ton Voyager was developed by Boeing\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, Voyager also can dive as deep as 3350 meters\u2014while few military submarines are (officially) certified for dives below 500 meters.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And it isn\u2019t the only robot submarine in the works.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/sebastien-roblin\">Sebastien Roblin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s What You Need to Know<\/strong>: The U.S. Navy has an ambitious vision for future warfare.<\/p>\n<p>At a military parade celebrating its 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, the People\u2019s Republic of China unveiled, amongst many<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/stealth-drones-and-more-6-crazy-new-weapons-china-just-displayed-84796\"> other exotic weapons<\/a>, two HSU-001 submarines\u2014the world\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/china-s-stealth-drones-hypersonic-missiles-surpass-threaten-u-s-ncna1064841\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> first large diameter autonomous submarines to enter military service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-orca-this-autonomous-submarine-will-fight-the-wars-of-the-future\">Continue reading \u201cThe Orca: This Autonomous Submarine Will Fight the Wars of the Future\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50-ton Voyager was developed by Boeing\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123038","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}