Is the future of shipbuilding in AI Ships?Article: https://www.workboat.com/saronic-selects-brownsville-for-port-alpha-shipyard-1784143029963
>>65337960No, it isn't. FPVs are a great new thing for ground combat, fighter drones are a great new thing for air combat, but at sea, the jeune ecole is a well-known loser. Sure there are some minor wins to eke out, but unlike land and air, there are no revolutions available; unless you count undersea combat which will be ok but underwhelming.
>>65337960Well, they're the some of the only things we can build, so they'll have to do
>>65337982>jeune ecoleI agree with this anon. But I do think there is a niche for commerce raiding perhaps. Think what the Houthis and Iran are doing but with drone ships instead of tossing lives away with conventional speedboats. It just doesn't fit with US doctrine tho.
>>65337960Until autonomy becomes a thing, these things are just oversized torpedoes or mines.
>>65338033They're oversized mines and torpedoes that you can recover and reuse instead of being gone if you've deployed them. That alone is huge cost savings
>>65337982I see a certain niche for uncrewed mini arsenal ships. Essentially just a hull full of VLS cells that follows the actual DD around.I'm sure the USN already has a cool backronym name.
