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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]
[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]
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Aircraft carriers stored at the NISMF in Bremerton, 2012.From left to right: Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger. A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States expanded sanctions against Iran's petroleum and petrochemical sectors on Friday in response to an Iranian missile attack on Israel, the administration of ...