US Navy New Submarine-Launched Drone Guides Torpedo Attacks From Unprecedented Range

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The U.S. Navy has deployed new drones launched from submarines to spy out targets and enable torpedo attacks on ships sailing far beyond the horizon. By acting as the sub’s eyes and ears, the drone can greatly increase its strike range – and keep the submarine well away from any defensive weapons or sensors.


The deployment was revealed by Rear Adm. Dave Goggins, program executive officer for Submarines, in a webinar at the Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium.

Goggins called the new submarine-launched unmanned aerial system (SLUAS) “a pretty awesome capability to provide to the fleet.”

Modern torpedoes like the Mk 48 Mod 6 Advanced Technology are limited by the range of sensors. Officially the Mk 48 has a range of ‘greater than five miles’; unofficially it is believed to be somewhat over 30 miles. The problem though is that it is difficult to detect, positively identify and track a target at that sort of range from as submerged submarine. These days submarines do not raise a periscope for an attack, which would give away their location to radar; instead, everything is done from sonar. But, depending on conditions, this might only give a ‘target solution’ – a precise fix on the target vessel – from a few miles away.


The drone solves all that. It is launched underwater from a 3-inch tube normally used for noisemaking decoys, bobs to the surface and then takes off, unfolding wings and an electric propeller. Equipped with daylight and night vision cameras, it relays data back to the submerged submarine. While sonar might have difficulty picking out one specific vessel from a group, the drone can easily identify and give the exact location, speed and bearing information needed to launch a torpedo.

Goggin’s use of the term ‘awesome’ is probably not an accident: the project was developed under the name 'Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS against Mobile targets' – AWESUM for short. The aim was to provide a means of spotting not just ships for torpedo attacks, but also for pinpointing land targets for strikes by submarine-launched cruise missiles.


The drone for the original AWESUM development was the BlackWing developed by AeroVironment AVAV -2.3%, a derivative of their SwitchBlade loitering munition which weighs about four pounds and has a twenty-seven inch wingspan. The speed and endurance are not stated, but if it is similar to SwitchBlade it may cruise for half an hour at 60 mph. Earlier, AeroVironment worked on a version of BlackWIng with an explosive payload, which would have allowed submarines to carry out covert strikes on high-value targets in coastal areas; this version does not seem to have gone into production.

Goggins said the drone was tested by USS Annapolis, a fast-attack submarine, using it in a simulated torpedo attack on the littoral-combat ship USS Charleston at “pretty much at near-maximum effective range of that torpedo.”

After successful testing, the new drones were deployed in September and are now in active service.

“I have five SLUAS shipsets in the fleet today and we will continue to deliver this capability,” Goggins said. “We’re really working on the evolution of that capability going forward.”

The Navy seems to be serious about further developments. On October 30th they put out a Request For Information for a Submarine-Launched Unmanned Aerial System. This specifies that the drone, which must fit in a three-inch launch tube, should have a flight endurance of at least one hour, “operate at ranges out to the line-of-sight radio horizon” and have advanced encrypted communications. The drone should be able to fly autonomously so the submarine would not need to transmit control signals which might give away its location.

AeroVironment are likely to have some competition: Lockheed Martin’s Outrider, which debuted in 2017, is also capable of submarine launch and has a flight endurance of more than two hours, with a cruising speed of 40 mph.

They may also be far more capable submarine-launched drones out there. In 2016, Rear Adm. Charles Richard, the Navy’s director for undersea warfare, told USNI News of plans for “21-inch torpedo tube launched vehicles with much longer launched duration.”

With this sort of aerial asset torpedoes with far greater ranges could be deployed. The launching submarine does not need to be within sonar range, or even in the same general area as the target. That’s going to make things very much more difficult for anyone trying to stop a submarine attack.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...cks-from-unprecedented-range/?sh=76f9bf295f19

 

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The U.S. Navy has deployed new drones launched from submarines to spy out targets and enable torpedo attacks on ships sailing far beyond the horizon. By acting as the sub’s eyes and ears, the drone can greatly increase its strike range – and keep the submarine well away from any defensive weapons or sensors.


The deployment was revealed by Rear Adm. Dave Goggins, program executive officer for Submarines, in a webinar at the Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium.

Goggins called the new submarine-launched unmanned aerial system (SLUAS) “a pretty awesome capability to provide to the fleet.”

Modern torpedoes like the Mk 48 Mod 6 Advanced Technology are limited by the range of sensors. Officially the Mk 48 has a range of ‘greater than five miles’; unofficially it is believed to be somewhat over 30 miles. The problem though is that it is difficult to detect, positively identify and track a target at that sort of range from as submerged submarine. These days submarines do not raise a periscope for an attack, which would give away their location to radar; instead, everything is done from sonar. But, depending on conditions, this might only give a ‘target solution’ – a precise fix on the target vessel – from a few miles away.


The drone solves all that. It is launched underwater from a 3-inch tube normally used for noisemaking decoys, bobs to the surface and then takes off, unfolding wings and an electric propeller. Equipped with daylight and night vision cameras, it relays data back to the submerged submarine. While sonar might have difficulty picking out one specific vessel from a group, the drone can easily identify and give the exact location, speed and bearing information needed to launch a torpedo.

Goggin’s use of the term ‘awesome’ is probably not an accident: the project was developed under the name 'Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine UAS against Mobile targets' – AWESUM for short. The aim was to provide a means of spotting not just ships for torpedo attacks, but also for pinpointing land targets for strikes by submarine-launched cruise missiles.


The drone for the original AWESUM development was the BlackWing developed by AeroVironment AVAV -2.3%, a derivative of their SwitchBlade loitering munition which weighs about four pounds and has a twenty-seven inch wingspan. The speed and endurance are not stated, but if it is similar to SwitchBlade it may cruise for half an hour at 60 mph. Earlier, AeroVironment worked on a version of BlackWIng with an explosive payload, which would have allowed submarines to carry out covert strikes on high-value targets in coastal areas; this version does not seem to have gone into production.

Goggins said the drone was tested by USS Annapolis, a fast-attack submarine, using it in a simulated torpedo attack on the littoral-combat ship USS Charleston at “pretty much at near-maximum effective range of that torpedo.”

After successful testing, the new drones were deployed in September and are now in active service.

“I have five SLUAS shipsets in the fleet today and we will continue to deliver this capability,” Goggins said. “We’re really working on the evolution of that capability going forward.”

The Navy seems to be serious about further developments. On October 30th they put out a Request For Information for a Submarine-Launched Unmanned Aerial System. This specifies that the drone, which must fit in a three-inch launch tube, should have a flight endurance of at least one hour, “operate at ranges out to the line-of-sight radio horizon” and have advanced encrypted communications. The drone should be able to fly autonomously so the submarine would not need to transmit control signals which might give away its location.

AeroVironment are likely to have some competition: Lockheed Martin’s Outrider, which debuted in 2017, is also capable of submarine launch and has a flight endurance of more than two hours, with a cruising speed of 40 mph.

They may also be far more capable submarine-launched drones out there. In 2016, Rear Adm. Charles Richard, the Navy’s director for undersea warfare, told USNI News of plans for “21-inch torpedo tube launched vehicles with much longer launched duration.”

With this sort of aerial asset torpedoes with far greater ranges could be deployed. The launching submarine does not need to be within sonar range, or even in the same general area as the target. That’s going to make things very much more difficult for anyone trying to stop a submarine attack.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...cks-from-unprecedented-range/?sh=76f9bf295f19

Muricans are so good and eloquent in coining and creating even more and more awesome acronyms.

If no acronyms be found , Muricans then use their new magical word BLOCK supposedly to convey some kind sinister ability like Wakanda Vibranium to intimidate all that they finished once Murica put them in their sight and cross hair.

Murica did not have enough acronyms then in Korea or Vietnam or Afghan or Somalia or Iraq?




Actually Murican Army lost almost all the wars they fought in.


Just remember Murica won only 3 wars since WW2, against Nicaragua, Panama and Grenada.
And even though Murica fought against sheep and goat herders in Afghan and Somalia and Iraq and with fire power 100 to 10,000 times greater, Murica lost and lost and lost.

Murica would not have won WW2 but for Zhukov killing the vast bulk of Werhmacht and miltary machinery
leaving Muricans to take on the German invalids on D Day

DDay operations not even 10% of Operation Bagration.
D Day took on 3 to 4 German Division that consisted of the German invalids send from Russia to R & R. And even so, Muricans and Brits had such a hard and difficult time doing that.

Where Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. It was the biggest defeat in German military history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bagration

EVEN WHEN CHINESE GOT JUST SINGLE SHOT BOLT ACTION RIFLES LIKE IN THE KOREAN WAR, THEY CHASED THE FUCKING AMERICANS AND THE 5 EYES AND THE REST OF THE WORLD WITH AMERICA FROM YALU RIVER TO SOUTH OF THE PARALLEL IN UNDER 3 WEEKS WITH THE ANGMOHS SHITTING DOWN THEIR PANTS.


America forgot about WW2 where China with barely any arms from USA and with single shot bolt rifles and swords and bare hands fought and killed 3,000,000 Japanese invaders?

And USA needed no less than aircraft carriers and battleships and planes and artilleries and automatic rifles to kill 300,000 Japs in the Pacific?

And remember that China in WW2 with single shot bolt rifles and 5 bullets to a rifle were the best armed half of the force. And with swords and bare bodies with explosive strapped to them took on and killed 3,000,000 japanese soldiers.

And USA needed no less than aircraft carriers and battleships and planes and artilleries and automatic rifles to kill 300,000 Japs in the Pacific?

"dare to die corps" http://forlornhopesui.blogspot.com/2015/08/dare-to-die-corps.html

Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks.


The battle involved a Japanese plan to conquer Xuzhou, a major city in the East. However, the Japanese failed to consider the plans of generals Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who planned to encircle the Japanese in the town of Tai'erzhuang. The Japanese operation started on 24 March. Overconfidence led the Japanese commanders to overlook the thousands of inconspicuous "farmers" in the area, who were affiliated with Li Zongren and cut communication lines and supplies, diverted streams, and ruined rail lines. By late March, supplies and fuels were being dropped from airplanes to Japanese troops, but the quantities were insufficient.
On 29 March 1938, a small band of Japanese soldiers tunneled under Tai'erzhuang's walls in an attempt to take the city from within. They were caught by the Nationalist defenders and killed. Over the next week, both sides claimed to hold parts of the city and surrounding area, and many were killed in small arms battles.
Finally, the Japanese attacked frontally, failing to consider the greater Chinese numbers. A major encirclement on 6 April, with Chinese reinforcements, preceded a major Japanese defeat and retreat, which the Chinese failed to capitalize upon fully through pursuit due to a lack of mobility.
The Chinese captured 719 Japanese soldiers and large quantities of military supplies, including 31 pieces of artillery, 11 armored cars, 8 armored fighting vehicles, 1,000 machine guns and 10,000 rifles.
A "dare to die corps" was effectively used against Japanese units.
Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks
Due to lack of anti-armor weaponry, Suicide bombing was also used against the Japanese. Chinese troops strapped explosives like grenade packs or dynamite to their bodies and threw themselves under Japanese tanks to blow them up. Dynamite and grenades were strapped on by Chinese troops who rushed at Japanese tanks and blew themselves up. During one incident at Taierzhuang, Chinese suicide bombers obliterated four Japanese tanks with grenade bundles.
Amid the celebrations of the victory in Hankow and other Chinese cities, Japan tried to deny and ridiculed the reports of the battle for days. It was reported in the world's newspapers, however, and by mid-April had provoked a Cabinet crisis in Tokyo.
The Chinese scored a major victory, the first of the Nationalist alliance in the war. The battle broke the myth of Japanese military invincibility and resulted in an incalculable benefit to Chinese morale.


Japanese learned kamikaze attacks from what the Chinese did to them in China.

And now China weapons are more powerful and reach further and more accurate than that of USA AND ALL HER ALLIES RUNNING DOGS.
And China got much more of those weapons than USA hope to have

Or Korean War where China with single shot bolt action rifles drove USA and all her allies when USA firepower 100 times greater than China and fighting with automatic weapons and artillery and battleships with 16 inch guns .

The military might and strength of USA with heavy artillery and planes and tanks and battleships with 16 inch guns cannot be resisted by China with economy slightly out of stone age and with single shot bolt action rifles. Bolt operated rifles were just one stage above using muzzle loading muskets and black powder.

That Chinese be slaughtered and turned into red pulp should they dare to fight good old Dugout in Korea.

Chinese whacked USA and the UN combined that they had to flee south of the Parallel as demanded by China.Chinese fought with bolt operated rifles against Ma Dueces , automatic weapons and artillery and tanks and planes and chopters and battleships with 16″ guns.

Go read the book by David Halberstam
The Coldest Winter

Look on the front line at 24 Nov 1950 and the front line of 16 Dec 1950.

What was the military edge USA have over a bunch of separate goat herders in Afghan? Do not even need the entire fucking country of Afghan.
10,000 to 1 ?
Or is it the Afghan goat herders have military technology greater than USA??
I finished reading “the Outpost” by Jake Tapper. How a bunch of goat herders in Afghan with AKs and rpgs and IEDs (because they do not have billion dollar industry to make bombs like USA, can only make bombs in backyard on a DIY basis) taking out USA brave men despite they having 155 howizters , 120 mm mortars , Ma Deuces, A-10s, properly build bombs, B52s and helicopter gunships , AC-130 Spectre Gunships and billions of dollars backing them and not so good in protecting them.
If USA fought bravely with massive firepower behind them, then what about the goat herders with only AKs and RPGs fighting against USA knowing they fighting against 155 howizters , 120 mm mortars , Ma Deuces, A-10s, properly build bombs, B52s and helicopter gunships , AC-130 Spectre Gunships ?
Even more fucking brave is the least I can say of the Afghans goat herders. Who were untrained knowing only how to herd goats unlike the USA special forces who went through countless hours and weeks and months learning how to kill and kill.
Yet who won? And who left Afghan?
Maybe USA army should consider making their fighting folks do a course in goat herding . As who knows, maybe herding goats might be better to build up fighting skills.

USA got fucked when USA tried that in Afghan . Against a bunch of tribesmen when USA had 1000 the firepower over them. And after a trillion of dollars what have USA got to show in Afghan?
Why did the United States of America fail to win the war in Afghanistan even after 17 years? Why does the lone superpower fail to defeat a group of goat herders?
And in Somalia. A bunch of ex fishermen and part time goat herders with nothing more than AKs and RPGs chased USA out running with tail between legs

What military edge USA got in Iraq over Sadr? 1,000 to 1?
Please dont say Murica won Saddam.
It will be like saying Tokyo won after they did Tora Tora Tora

Or is it Sadr got better and more advanced military technology over USA?
In Iraq losing out to Sadr who had 1000 times less firepower than USA.
Having no more than AKs and rpgs.

Then how is it