The service is moving quickly foward with building and integrating new drones warships and submarines.
The Navy has big plans for its drone fleet, that much seems certain.
These unmanned systems will perform high-risk surveillance operations under hostile fire and find weak points for attack along enemy coastlines. Moreover, these drones will be able to descend into undersea ocean depths to attack enemy mines and submarines and even perform forward positioned ballistic missile defense missions.
The Navy’s future fleet plans envision a force with hundreds of drone boats on the surface and undersea to support manned vessels across the full range of mission possibilities, a reason why the service is well underway in various stages of testing and development. Plans include small, medium and large undersea and surface drones to in large measure support fleets of manned vessels performing command and control.
fiscal year 2018. he also wants to find some money to add onto that for fiscal year 2017 this year. do you feel that what is the u.s. military going to be able to do that it currently cannot do? well, as you know, he wants to increase the number of carriers. we currently have ten navy carriers. he wants to increase that to 12. that s a major, major investment. these are very expensive ships and it s not just the carrier because if you re going to increase another carrier, that means you re going to have to increase to another carrier air group. and that s going to be a lot of ships talking, maybe 40, 50 ships. he wants to increase the size of the navy up to 350 ships. all costing a lot of money. it s not that we don t have enough equipment to do the job now. it s that we don t have enough modern equipment and we don t have enough equipment to replace as we go. if you look at the serviceability rates of marine corps aircraft, navy aircraft,