The U.S. Navy has received a powerful weapon against Russian submarines : In World : Vladim

News 11 February, 2018

The us Navy has received a powerful weapon against Russian submarines.

 

Armed drone “Sea hunter”, for which the Pentagon has spent more than one hundred twenty million dollars, equipped with devices of echolocation, nologo generation and is able to detect quiet Russian diesel-electric submarines.

Operation meter ship, with no crew, exactly two orders of magnitude cheaper than maintaining a full-time destroyer with similar functions.
The American command believed that the main threat in the nuclear strike comes from the submarine fleet of Russia and China. In the state Navy’s latest is more than seventy silent diesel-electric submarine frigates, and the fleet in the midst of the construction project of a new generation of quiet submarines.

“Sea hunter” was first launched in April 2016. It has performed well in tests and now in the United States want to open the whole line for the production of marine drones of various modifications.