A NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) Ocean Explorer autonomous unmanned vehicle operates in the foreground with NATO Research Vessel NRV Alliance in the background. NATO CMRE photo.
CATANIA, Sicily – The future of anti-submarine warfare for countries who can’t afford to invest in top-of-the-line submarines and maritime patrol aircraft could be a netted fleet of unmanned platforms that can create “passive acoustic barriers” at chokepoints or drag towed arrays through a...