US Navy Wants a ‘Ghost Fleet’ of Drone Warships – Report
The drones might serve as protection for carrier strike groups or as offensive vessels in their own right, Navy officials say.
The US Navy wants to procure a number of drone warships that will operate on the open sea without any sailors, Popular Mechanics reports.
And we are not talking about small drones; we are talking about 300-foot, 2,000-ton, corvette-sized vessels designed to carry both sensors and weapons.
According to USNI News, the drone ships, which the Navy has already dubbed the Ghost Fleet, could find widespread use as an avant-garde of carrier strike groups. Due to the curvature of the Earth, warships have hard time detecting low-attitude cruise missiles that can have a range of more than 100 miles. Sending a flotilla of drones ahead of manned ships, with their sensors at full power, would significantly increase a strike group's protection, Navy officials say.
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