https://defence-industry.eu/fincantieri-marine-group-to-build-saildrone-spectre-unmanned-vessel-for-multi-mission-naval-operations/
Neat. I love sailing
>>65094116>you came to the wrong yacht club, motherfucker
>>65094116Imagine China builds 20000 of these, submarines would have no place to hide
>>65094197Sure they would. Anywhere with bad weather is a no-go zone for these kinds of machines.
>>65094116In the cyberpunk2077 universe autonomous self replicating sea mines/drones have taken over most of the world's oceans
>>65094116>too slow to be a suicide boat>too detectable to be a minefor what pvrpose?
>>65094234Probably surveillance. They look tailor made to look for boats full of promising youths coming over the Mediterranean Or drug smuggling ships going along the coast of Morocco up to Portugal/Spain.
>>65094259ah, makes sense. basically a buoy with extra steps.
>>65094234>Transcending traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) roles, Spectre is built to carry the types of mission-tailored effects commanders need. To deliver these capabilities, Saildrone and Lockheed Martin will integrate numerous payloads as part of a $50 million strategic partnership signed in October 2025. These include the Mk70 VLS launcher, active and passive ASW arrays such as the TB29 thin-linned towed array, and electronic warfare systems.The sailless variant is the one that gets the VLS module though. The one with the sail gets the towed sonar or something else.
>>65094234>Spectre, which has been in the works for two years and is 52-meters long, includes a concealed payload deck to hold two 40-foot containers, up to five 20-foot containers, and other combinations that weigh more than 70 tons. Those things are (going to be) huge
>>65094234Probably to transport drugs and say they're looking for pirates
>>65094227Funny how Cyberpunk 2077 predictions become real but worse version.CP2077 has no internet because mega cool AI virus created by mega cool hacker legend destroyed it. There are only intranets surrendered by firewalls. Today we witness last days of internet but not because of the cool hacker but because governments start tighten control in internet and create electronic walls in same borders physical space has.And current Iran war reveals the future without freedom of naval travel but not because of AI drones taking oceans but because states start to release they can build Shahed drones for cents and blackmail other countries over naval routes.
>>65094234Distributes sensor platforms, distributed launch platforms.
>>65094116Exactly how is this wierd looking sail going to work? I mean, in real sailboats you have to take down the sails when the wind gets too strong. Its just a mast. This thing seems to be designed for a lake. And the sail area is very low relative to the boat. I think this is just a spin on the recurring auxillary sail-on-cargo-ship memes that have been recurring for the last 50 years since the first oil crisis and the actual propulsion is a conventional engine. I mean, when I first read about a japanese cargo ship being outfitted with an auxillary sail I was just a kid and that was long ago. Guess how surprised I was when suddenly these auxillary sails started to show up everywhere just to disappear quietly when ship owners find out that they have a very marginal utility in the real world while costing a lot. If you wish to use a sail, you have to adapt to the wind which is not conductive to delivery schedules.
>>65094405>Exactly how is this wierd looking sail going to work?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsail>I mean, in real sailboats you have to take down the sails when the wind gets too strong. It set to free rotation as weather vane.
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2013/11/17/saildrone-new-world-record-for-autonomous-sailboat/
>>65094116are these useful outside of peacetime?
Machines were supposed to free mankind from labor and let us cultivate higher purposes, now they are the ones writing poetry, drawing art, sailing the Mediterrean while launching missiles on us wagies
>>65094584>are silent weapon and sensor platforms useful
>>65094584Peace is maintained through deterrence.
>>65094405>>65094463Make the whole thing water tight, when there is a bad storm have a pulley lift a weight to the top so it flips over and the sail acts as an extremely deep keel. If the ship is 52 meters long then the new 'keel' would be about 75-80 meters underwater, that should be enough to weather any storm since the hull is thin enough to act as a wave cutter/needle ship. It no doubt has a keel already so use a hollow sail shaft to move the keel weight to the top of the mast.
>Drones sailingWe should have died in nuclear exchange.
>>65095870Should probably have a magnus effect/flettner turbine on top that works in both air and underwater, even if it was covered in solar panels (top and bottom) power generation for station keeping in bad weather will be an issue; a turbine might greatly extend station keeping in such conditions. At that point you should make it a semi submersable so it can hide in flip mode.
>>65094319>And current Iran war reveals the future without freedom of naval travel but not because of AI drones taking oceans but because states start to release they can build Shahed drones for cents and blackmail other countries over naval routes.except you can travel freely if you're not a trillion dollar insurance firm scared of 1% chance that your precious ship might get hit on an off chance.
what kind of tard-ass sail is that?a sail is supposed to be big and puffy so it can catch the windthat thing just looks like an airplane wing
>>65096685>a sail is supposed to be big and puffy so it can catch the wind>that thing just looks like an airplane wingYou don't know how sails work.>>65095162>GalmaWhat a beautiful waste of €2.5m.>33.42m>8 guests in 4 cabins>three separate dining areas>self-contained crew cabinsOnly downside is that it requires five crew to operate, not exactly something you can cruise around Greek islands, just you and a lover.
>>65096809Any sailboat over 45' is a bitch to run solo.
>>65096826>Any sailboat over 45' is a bitch to run solo.Yeah, it's the main drawback to something like this (well aside from never being able to afford it, let alone maintain it).I'd hate to have crew on a boat I lived on, the point of having a sailboat is to be absolutely alone on the water, or at least only with family/friends/lovers.
