The "ghost fleet" is not patented by the U.S. Navy
It may be rare to find an empty ship on the vast ocean, but it is not unheard of.
Based on the data, we will find that in different waters, it is actually possible for unmanned ships to drift on the water. People gave it a mysterious name - Ghost Ship.
If ghost ships floating everywhere are not surprising, then wouldn’t a ‘ghost fleet’ that can perform specific tasks be very eye-catching?
Perhaps some people hear "Ghost Fleet" and think it is just a bizarre story in a novel. But technology is developing so fast that there is really nothing you can’t think of and you can’t do anything.
As for the creation of a "ghost fleet", the United States has already prepared for such a thing.
Chun plans to purchase 10 unmanned boats without any crew members to perform specific tasks, and these unmanned boats mainly rely on sensors and various types of weapons to complete their tasks. The U.S. Navy will mainly use these ships to expand the detection range of manned fleets at sea.
Relevant departments of the U.S. Navy revealed that it also plans to spend US$400 million to purchase two 200-300-foot-long ships for the "Ghost Fleet". The Ghost Fleet is closely related to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency’s Sea Hunter program. The main purpose of Sea Hunter is to build a waterborne unmanned vehicle that can track target submarines for a long time.
For the 'Ghost Fleet' project, the U.S. Navy has conducted a new round of evaluation to see what impact its development will have on the U.S. Navy as a whole. After all, in the era of systematic warfare, no piece of equipment is independent. exist.
Of course, building a water force like the "Ghost Fleet" is not a patent of the U.S. Navy. Related work of our Navy has also begun. Although there is still a certain gap with the United States, at the 2018 Zhuhai Air Show, a 'Lookout II' integrated missile unmanned boat showed one of the prototypes of an 'unmanned fleet', so we There is every reason to believe that what the United States can do, the Chinese Navy can do the same.