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The US Navy's 'ghost hunter' hit the water: Robo-boats set to track down silent enemy submarines for months at a time | Daily Mail Online
Published: 19:15 GMT, 25 March 2015 | Updated: 07:39 GMT, 26 March 2015
The project began in 2010, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel-powered submarines.
The program was dubbed Anti-submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV.
In six weeks of tests along a 35-nautical mile stretch of water off of Mississippi earlier this year, testers at engineering company Leidos and DARPA put the ACTUV's systems through 100 different scenarios.
The test boat was able to tail a target boat at 1 kilometer's distance, something military bosses say is a major step forward.
- Designed to hunt down silent and deadly diesel-electric submarines
- Robot boats will go to sea for us to three months at a time
Published: 19:15 GMT, 25 March 2015 | Updated: 07:39 GMT, 26 March 2015
The project began in 2010, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel-powered submarines.
The program was dubbed Anti-submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV.
In six weeks of tests along a 35-nautical mile stretch of water off of Mississippi earlier this year, testers at engineering company Leidos and DARPA put the ACTUV's systems through 100 different scenarios.
The test boat was able to tail a target boat at 1 kilometer's distance, something military bosses say is a major step forward.
