U.S. NAVY’S SEA HUNTER UNMANNED SURFACE VESSEL - FULL ANALYSIS

Some reports emerging in the media have claimed America is lagging behind China in Artificial Intelligence.
But U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter project has achieved something truly amazing.
Sea Hunter has become the first craft to ever sail from San Diego, California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and back without needing any onboard crew.
Viewers may note that the round trip is almost 5,200 miles.
On Jan. 31 2019, Leidos, the lead Defense contractor for the Sea Hunter project, announced this achievement in a press release.
Gerry Fasano, Leidos Defense Group President, said the press release,
“The Sea Hunter program is leading the world in unmanned, fully autonomous naval ship design and production. The recent long-range mission is the first of its kind and demonstrates to the U.S. Navy that autonomy technology is ready to move from the developmental and experimental stages to advanced mission testing.”

In this video Defines Updates analyses U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter unmanned surface vessel.
Let's get into the details.

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[paulshearer]

Surely the Sea Hunter and Valkyrie unmanned drone are examples of the future of warfare. Basically robots fighting robots.

[idesofmarchUNIAEA]

I am confident the chicoms are trying to copy it. Will the demographics allow them to build it though? Not looking too good going forward.

[soundknight]

What is their legal obligation in international waters regarding stranded sailors?

[drbendover]

I wonder how long it would take for China to scoop one of these boats out of the ocean and claim it was operating in their territorial waters:)

[daxflame]

Impressive, just make sure that Chinese hackers don't get their hands on it like j20 is a complete rip-off of f35 lightning

[korndog]

a glimpse of what will be the army of the future

[bomipatell]

Am a seaman myself, and this is used in the defence. But could this peculate into the maritime cargo and container areas...just a curious question.!!

[BenJamin-rtui]

Half a dozen of these, circling each Chinese artificial island 24/7/365. Job done.

[NeedaNewAlias]

Why do the have a bridge? Without they would have a much lower profile.

[darko]

USS tulsa💪👍👍
Proud to be an american!

[bigmike]

Still don't understand what keeps the enemy from sinking or capturing this though?

[PatrickNobleX]

Interesting concept, and clearly at a fairly early design stage. Whilst a long journey completed is a major milestone for the project, I suspect it was more of a Navy requirement than a development team one, real world proof of laboratory/simulation progress. Not exactly a route with much civilian traffic to avoid / monitor - perhaps not ready for deployment in busier shipping lanes yet. I would appreciate a more in depth technical analysis if such information, or well informed speculation, is available. For instance, what subsystems can been seen as installed based on the photographs? Why choose a narrow beam with outriggers over a broad beam, or catamaran design? Propulsion systems/power plant speculation?

[loser]

AI, you can't reason with it, it doesn't feel love or petty or fear or remorse all it knows is death and destruction. (Sarah Conner)

[bigmike]

We just bought 5 orca unmanned subs too.

[kyc]

How can China lead when it just steals stuff? I never understood that... but yeah A.I ships are no awful we're a couple years and one spilled coffee away from Terminator

[leeshepherd]

While autonomous in motion there is an elite team of military engineers and pilots navigating and monitoring all systems at all times. The ship can't fire without permission and the autodefense system would only be operational in an open warzone

[fakawat]

it should be equipped with some type of weapon also.

[shatteredstar]

Don't worry folks, China probably have the blueprints and program for these ship already

[christianmatchon]

Shape like a Simple Fishing Boat in the Philippines We called it "PamBot" with engine if not, We called it "Bigiw or Sakayan"... That kind of Fishing Boat is too fast just like this US navy ship...

[robertschultz]

Don't like unnamed shapes. Something goes wrong with computers and you have a m as hot problem what do you do?