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Navy/USMC

Navy Nuclear Power Chief Says Unmanned Systems Are Future Of Submarine Warfare

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

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Navy Nuclear Power Chief Says Unmanned Systems Are Future Of Submarine Warfare

Adm. Frank Caldwell, Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

Unmanned systems will revolutionize undersea warfare much in the manner that nuclear propulsion did, the Navy’s new nuclear reactors chief said Oct. 21.“I think we have an imperative, now, to transform undersea warfare by exploiting the use of unmanned vehicles, autonomous assets and the supporting systems,” Adm. Frank Caldwell, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, said at the Naval Submarine Leagues’ annual symposium outside Washington, D.C. “It’s the right path and I think it’s a path that is compelled…

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