The Insanely Advanced Sea Drone with a Hidden Military Mission

Beneath the vast oceans, technology takes a bold leap forward with Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray, a never-before-seen extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle engineered to endure the planet's most extreme and inaccessible environments.

Grumman’s Manta Ray glider vehicle design features state-of-the-art technology that takes underwater scientific exploration and military operations decades into the future.

From imitating the Manta Ray’s movement to advanced energy-saving technology that allows the vehicle to anchor on the seafloor and hibernate in a low-power state, Grumman’s design is a game changer.

The Manta Ray can travel unlimited distances and durations at extreme depths and relay and receive information for military or scientific purposes.

As if that was not enough, Grumman’s UUV can carry a devastating payload, be it missiles or torpedoes, for use against hostile forces. Manta Ray is the next tier in uncrewed underwater vehicles, and it is only a matter of time before they join the US Navy in the Pacific for the conflicts to come in the region.

[gorethegreat]

Please tune the background music down or off

[ernstpeischl]

Does anyone else find the background music irritating?

[jeraldehlert]

That's cool that it can just lurk, but does it have a barnacle resistant coating?

[LordHolley]

And this is the stuff they let us know

[mike]

Thanks for the update, one of the many reasons that the Black Sea fleet doesn’t patrol the Black Sea … 💙💛💙

[OrginalDravas]

sea quest dsv is becoming more and more real. If i remember right that fictional sub had drones that were its eyes and ears.

[iviynwf]

This one came across like a commercial, especially with that background music which, in my opinion, would've been much better at a lower volume.
Thank you for the videos.

[brentdallyn]

There will be a lot of these on standby in the Taiwan strait..for that day

[josephpacchetti]

Interesting, sounds like a great vehicle. 👍🇺🇸

[KRW]

If it flew, they'd say it was a stealth airplane. If it "flies" thru the water, you're got to wonder what kind of sonar signature it has. And if they're admitting to this, what does a stealth submarine really look like?

[KyleThill]

:23 From imitating the Manta Ray’s movement - When did it mimic the manta rays movements?

[non-human]

I'm still waiting for " The late Roy Scheider" to pop up somewhere in project Manta

[billrowley]

Weird, I saw this exact thing on display at an undersea expo in Groton over 20 years ago.

[newqlar]

Dude. Don’t be one of those douches that put in a fake image as a screenshot as a form of click bait. You, the content you painstakingly create and your channel are better than that.

[johnbethea]

So much for warships and subs. Orbital space station with lasers, jamming devices, and hypersonic missles will be the best weapons.

[mgmcd]

That hull cavitation may look cool for concept art videos, but would be fatal in actual practice.

[grayknight]

Nice, cool natural design should work well. Let’s deploy the Manta in Loch Ness 🦕 and and end that story once and for all.

[philiplewis]

And likely UAV vs UAV hunting and combat too. All quiet and unreported. And yes, China would likely deploy their "fishing" auxiliaries to anywhere they thought these UAVs might be trying to scoop one up.

[Kaptain.Obvious]

I hope that we’re only seeing this now because it’s NOT our newest and best technology.

[georgiacornjerker]

That’s some good old boy bullshit. You goddamn right.