Are Submarines About To Become Obsolete?

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Michael Peck, National Interest: Have Lethal Swarming Drones Made Submarines Obsolete?

It just became a lot more dangerous under the sea.

Submarines can run—but they can't hide—from drones.

That's the contention of a new report by a British think tank, which argues that the growing numbers and sophistication of drones are depriving submarines of their stealthiness.

The report, authored by science journalist David Hambling for the British American Security Information Council, was written as a briefing paper for Britain's Parliament, which must consider whether to modernize or scrap the UK's Trident nuclear missile subs.

The report points out the century-old method of hunting subs is changing:

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WNU Editor: On a side note, the US Navy's drone sub program has problems ..... Lockheed Martin's Billion-Dollar Drone Submarine Faces Cancellation (Motley Fool).