Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK):
The robot is designed for Distributed Agile Submarine Hunting (DASH), which is DOD acronym-speak for a distributed active sonar system which can track hard to detect silent submarines. The SHARK is built from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts to help reduce the cost.
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“The goal is not only to show we can address the most challenging problem in ASW [anti-submarine warfare], but that we can do so with systems that are scalable and affordable,” said Andy Coon, DARPA program manager.
Man, that’s a lot of acronyms. Photo at the link.