Russian Navy Nuclear-Powered combat AUVs?
kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de
How long it will take the West to develop such technology? Current Western submarine nuclear reactors were built for crewed submarines. That influenced their design in lots of ways, so a completely new reactor project would be needed. And new projects would have to overcome funding and human resourcing challenges. Not to mention a likely environmental backlash of putting unattended nuclear reactors into the world's oceans. Russia doesn't seem to care about that.
So whether completely unattended nuclear reactors on autonomous submarines is a good idea or not, it’s something you are likely to see in the Russian Navy long before any western power.
http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-Nuclear-Drone-Submarine.html #
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