I can fix it, distribute it and drop it in maybe it has a little mobility. I can put it potentially on an unmanned vehicle. “I can put sensing into the undersea environment by having it mobile and carrying it on a submarine. If you go back far enough in time, the only way to get it there was to bring it with you. “In the end, what I have to get in an environment is sensing capability, command and control or decision-making capability, and effects. That’s intentional to show that it is just part of a larger system that we’re putting out there.” In a graphic of future underwater operations, Richard said “the submarine’s not in the middle of the picture. This idea plays into Richard’s view of the undersea domain – operations shouldn’t be platform-centric but rather domain-centric. Not all UUVs are going to look like little submarines, there’s a bunch of different ways to put this effect in there.” It’s just a capability, a node in an undersea constellation that will include the seabed, fixed distributed systems. In the future, though, Richard said there will be more UUVs, but “they won’t always come by submarine, they may come by a number of mechanisms – you may launch them from a surface ship, they may be launched from the pier. The submarine community also has 16 21-inch Littoral Battlespace Sensing Autonomous Underwater Vehicles coming into the fleet for additional intelligence-gathering underwater.Ī future undersea warfare operating concept. Richard said the Navy has bought about 150 3-inch unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and about a dozen 21-inch UAVs that are fully integrated with the submarine and send information back. Submarines today, and even more so in the future, will not only deliver weapons but will also carry a family of unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles to help extend their area of influence. The Navy needs to decide “what capabilities would be of benefit to a combatant commander in a situation that is somewhere in the gray between peace and all out war type conflict,” and which of those effects might be best delivered by a submarine. Looking ahead, Richard said that understanding how submarines use nonkinetic effects is one of his top priorities.
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Richard said the Fiscal Year 2017 budget request also contains funding for innovative torpedo prototype work, which would look at longer ranges, greater capability and multiple payloads.Įven the existing inventory of torpedoes is set for improvements, with the Navy creating a technology insertion program – modeled after the Acoustic Rapid Commercial-off-the-shelf Insertion (ARCI) combat system improvement program for the submarines themselves – to increase the heavyweight torpedoes’ sensors through hardware and software upgrades. The service is adapting the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) to have an anti-surface ship attack capability, which will benefit the Navy’s surface ship and submarine fleets. On the weapons side of this effort, Richard said the Navy is working on several projects that will increase the strike range of the attack submarines.
“How can I improve my sensing capability? How can I grow longer arms with better missile capability, better torpedoes?” “How do you take greater advantage of the fact that you have access?” he said in an interview in his office on Tuesday. Charles Richard said the attack submarine fleet represents the Navy’s greatest asymmetrical advantage, and the undersea community needs to work to maximize that advantage as technologies and the operating environment evolve. THE PENTAGON – The future attack submarine fleet will have a longer reach, deliver a range of kinetic and nonkinetic effects and be better able to share information without compromising stealth, the Navy’s Undersea Warfare Director (OPNAV N97) told USNI News this week. Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Toledo (SSN-769) transits through the Persian Gulf.
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