DARPA 'Hydra' (Image from darpa.mil)
DARPA Goes Deep: New Hydra Project To See Underwater Drones Deploying Drones -- RT
The sky is no longer the limit for US drone warfare, with secret military research agency DARPA considering a conquest of the seven seas with an underwater drone carrier.
America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held a presentation of its new Hydra unmanned underwater drone carrier project at John's Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. ‘Proposer’s Day’ was set to beef up interest from defense contractors.
“The Hydra program will develop and demonstrate an unmanned undersea system, providing a novel delivery mechanism for insertion of unmanned air and underwater vehicles into operational environments,” says the Hydra Proposers' Day website.
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Update #1: DARPA wants to build a fleet of underwater drones for the Navy -- The Verge
Update #2: Underwater Aircraft Carriers? Defense Dept Sees Drone Submarine As New Way To Launch Robot Planes -- Opposing Views
My Comment: The Navy and DARPA are late in developing underwater drones .... but it appears that they are now trying to catch up.