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Ghost Fleet Overlord is a fleet of test unmanned surface vehicles operated by the U.S. Navy. [1] Ghost Fleet Overlord is being developed by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office. [1] It is a partnership between the Defense Department's Strategic Capabilities Office and the Navy. [2]
The U.S. Navy has received a prototype ship, the USNS Apalachicola, that can operate autonomously at sea for up to 30 days.
Unmanned ships can help the U.S. Navy with tasks that are dangerous for manned vessels. And 12 of them could potentially replace a nearly $2 billion destroyer.
Sea Hunter is an autonomous unmanned surface vehicle (USV) launched in 2016 as part of the DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. [2] The ship was christened 7 April 2016 in Portland, Oregon. It was designed and built by Leidos. [3]
It is best known for the "Ghost Fleet," 118 historic shipwrecks in Mallows Bay in the sanctuary's northeast corner which is the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere. [1] [3] [4] They are among more than 200 shipwrecks in the sanctuary, some of which date as far back as the American Revolutionary War and others to the American Civil ...
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[84] [85] The objective of the Ghost Fleet Overlord program is to convert large, commercial vessels to autonomous systems. As of 2024, China builds nearly 75% of new vessels on order [86] and has the capacity to build more ships in one month than the United States builds in a year. [87]
Two U.S. drone ships have been sent to Japan, the first time such vessels have been deployed near China. The unmanned surface vessels (USVs) Ranger and Mariner arrived Sept. 18 in Yokosuka “as ...