Shipbucket

premise: The vast majority of the world's Navys and Air forces have moved to unmanned technologies , artificial intelligence is prevalent in the private sector, but still requires massive mainframes, and is not economical or practical for military applications, the only branch relatively unaffected by the unmanned push is the army as foot soldiers can never be replaced , and armor is more effective crewed than not, The navys still have plenty of manned ships however LCS, LPD, command ships, and some large carriers, also just normal old destroyers, because a robot cannot conduct the seizure and search of a(n) vessel. so

Unmanned ships are never going to work. Unlike UAVs they need continuos maintenance while under if you want them to remain on station for any length of time.

Thiel wrote:Unmanned ships are never going to work.

Never say never my friend. If human crew will be replace with robotic crew ... who can fix themself, then we can have a unmanned ship with a crew. But not today, or in a year ... but in some time.

You could always go down the route of automating as much as you can to reduce the crew complement like the Russians did on some of their submarines...

The only unmanned vessels that I can imagine being feasible are FACs where they don't need to spend huge amounts of time at sea and weapons fits are generally simpler.

Thiel wrote:Unmanned ships are never going to work.

Like Rhade said, never say never. The nice thing about automation is that they take good men and women out of harm's way. That should be the priority, unless you like bodybags.

EDIT: I just realized I concluded that sentence rather strongly. See my other post in the other thread that explains that you don't want an undermanned ship, either go all in or all out.

Skynet ships with Terminators at the helm. It's going to happen, people. Judgement Day is inevitable.

Have you ever heard of the self repairing space shuttle concepts?, anyway I was thinking along the lines of UAVs, at sea totally human controlled , save for in this case repair systems, the fleets would consist of totally unmanned ships, an Command ship, and A carrier/tender that would be able to have humans repair damage the on-board systems couldn't handle

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