The Pentagon has agreed to allocate an additional $ 20.7 million to AAI Corp., a unit of Textron Systems, for engineering and technical services to develop more stealthy robot boats that explore mines submarines and can attack enemy forces with their machine guns.
The AAA stealth vessel is rough, and it's made here in the United States. In various production facilities on the East Coast. The deal is valued at $ 20,720,170 and constitutes an amendment to a contract previously awarded since 2014 for the Unmanned Influence Scanning System (UISS) and the Unmanned Surface Vehicle Program of the Navy.
Approximately 70% of the ship will be built at AAI facilities in Hunt Valley, Maryland, and the remaining 30% at the Slidell, Louisiana plant.
The UISS is the Navy's program for "a rapid clearance capability covering a large area, necessary to neutralize mines with acoustic / magnetic influence," he said. Naval recognition
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. The ship also accumulates firepower where it can attack enemy forces from a distance.
The robot ship is designed to perform countermeasures and mining capabilities through the use of mine hunting and sweeping systems and to work in tandem with coastal combat ships (LCS) and other ships. It is small enough to be launched from an LCS or another vessel.
It has high strength and can carry up to 20 hours of operation with the payload of mine technology. For defensive and offensive operations, the ship houses a machine gun that fires from a distance at enemy targets.
The Pentagon awarded the contract to AAI in 2014 for ships with a completion date of September 2020, for a total value of $ 122.1 million. The work was delayed by a year until September 2021, with the contract value increasing from $ 142.8 to $ 165.2 million.
It seems that the Navy wants more and more of these stealth robots. It's like Skynet in the water …