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AUKUS navies remote-control ships from 10,000 miles away in experiment (www.reuters.com)

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"The successes experienced, including proving the ability of all three AUKUS navies to command-and-control vessels on the other side of the world in a tactically realistic scenario, show how close we are to realising our ambition of a genuine team of crewed and uncrewed systems, capable of operating and prevailing everywhere on the planet, from the seabed to space," Royal Navy Director Develop James Parkin said in a statement.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn’t this be highly susceptible to communication blocking?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Or getting your navy hacked and under someone else’s control.

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