Comments on: Building the Drone Hive

By: Haywood Hjort

Haywood Hjort — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:06:39 +0000

Outstanding site, where did you come up with the info in this article? Im pleased I found it though, ill be checking back soon to see what other articles you have.

By: demophilus

demophilus — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:11:46 +0000

If we built some fast container ships, this is just one of the ways we could configure them.

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:21:52 +0000

Hey,we still have the LPH-10 Tripoli above water(meaning that she hasn’t been scrapped or sunk, unlike her fellow Iwo Jima sister ships).Oh wait I forgot,using this ship as a carrier for UAVs violates the Military Industrial Complex agreement to waste billions of dollars on future(?) planned(scammed) carriers of this kind.I guess they better hurry up & sink this mother before somebody decides to save money by actually using what we already have.I guess its time to make the Tripoli a new “‘artificial’ reef.”

By: 22lr

22lr — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:02:51 +0000

Im just sad to see computers take over the role Humans should have. No computer is going to match a human. Unmaned recon is one thing, but unmaned combat is quite another. What happens when the terrorist find a way to hijack the ship, when they figure out how to interfear and kill half of New York with our own ship. Unmaned will never be as effective as Manned.

By: ant

ant — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:05:02 +0000

The argument for this vessel over a role swapped phib is speed basically– that a more capable self defense and potentially C3. The Danish Absalon (or is it Absalom) class is another BAe design with a flexible mission deck.
This design seems to have a pretty extreme flight deck design too– that’s a pretty big overhang. The sort of design feature that isn’t very easy to build into a very stable or stealthy design.

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:54:52 +0000

Well I must admit that those WW2 Sea plane tenders do come to mind, but I think this is an excellent idea. One of these ships sailing in accompany of larger carrier type aircraft, freeing up deck space on the “real” carriers for standard aircraft operations.
Pocket Carrier Anyone?
– Phil

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:19:04 +0000

Good Morning Guys,
The only response I can think of to this idea is why?
Common sense says that underwater unmanned vehicles would best be served by submarines, stealth anyone. Surface unmanned vessels I would think would do ok being operated from current amphibious warfare ships that already have wet docks.
The UCAV is already destined to be deployed on carriers, Granted a 100Kt. behemouths like the CV-21 Class may not be neccessary for the unmanned air vehicles, something in the 15Kt. size might do just nicely, but that’s another dicussion.
This seems to be an idea that died with the old Sea Plane Tenders, anyone for bringing back the U.S.S. Pine Island?
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner