The Navy Is Going All-In On Robots To Beat China's Naval Expansion

The Navy wants LUSVs to be low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships based on commercial ship designs, with ample capacity for carrying various modular payloads particularly anti-surface warfare and strike payloads, meaning principally anti-ship and land-attack missiles.

According to O'Rourke, the Navy wants to flip that ratio as it works toward a bigger fleet of as many as 355 ships.

The Navy wants MUSVs, like LUSVs, to be low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships that can accommodate various payloads.

U.V.s are one of several new capabilities along with directed-energy weapons, hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, big data analytics and cyber capabilities that the Navy says it is pursuing to meet emerging military challenges, particularly from China, O'Rourke explained.

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