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taxiya said:

I guess by "expected" Andy1974 meant that it is dispensable, something you know would be easily lost.

No, I don't think it can be used to track the where-about of PLA facilities. The very first thing when this kind of thing is picked up at the fishing harbor is to wrap it with electromagnetic shields like blind-folding a hostage before getting into the car. Many of the fishermen are trained by PLA, so they may have some shield and instructions onboard, the fisher man said he contacted the National Security Bureau immediately while at sea over satellite phone.

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Andy1974 said:

What I actually meant was that it is almost certain that a small but meaningful percentage of the fleet of these drones will end up in nets, it’s inevitable given how many of these would be deployed and the number of nets.

Even if it’s 1% probability over a year, that’s still huge, and you can’t take a huge intelligence risk with that. Hence these things can’t be too advanced hardware wise, what it is doing isn’t all that sophisticated, it can send pings into the water, it can pick certain things up and network with other assets via satellite, which can include nerby subs that can actually pick up its ping reflections better than this thing could.

A thousand of these things or their successors could be deployed along and within the first island chain, acting as a sensor network for the US attack subs and other asset.

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Temstar said:

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The ship on the left, is that a submarine? It has an unusual wake pattern all around it and looks pretty black as opposed to the ship on the right.

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Bellum_Romanum said:

According to the website that was linked by @Temstar there's only 30 of these things that's been made for the U.S. Navy and 6 for the Australian Navy at the time of the publication which was in 2019. Even if they managed to double the number of these uuv they couldn't be in the thousands unless the U.S. Navy decided to scale up the order in a massive way.

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Temstar said:

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The ship on the left, is that a submarine? It has an unusual wake pattern all around it and looks pretty black as opposed to the ship on the right.

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Andy1974 said:

Well we are still very much in the testing and experimenting stage, I was thinking more of the concept, these and their successors are meant to be cheap and pretty easy to manufacture so they can be deployed en mass.

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Bellum_Romanum said:

What do you mean by "We are still very much in the testing and experimenting stage" are you part of the Boeing and Liquid robotics team that worked on this UUV spy vehicle for the U.S.?

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Temstar said:

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The ship on the left, is that a submarine? It has an unusual wake pattern all around it and looks pretty black as opposed to the ship on the right.

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trying to shadow Liaoning, and was discovered. Civilian satellite have been taking shots of the CV so hardly a surprise it was captured in sat image. Foreign sub is to surface and show its flag. Either you remain undiscovered or you'll be chased by the fleet, including KQ-200 flying over there at that time. An unidentified submerged sub trying to shadow Chinese CV is not an innocent passage. BTW two SSN were tracked, only one shown up in the sat image.

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