>The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) demonstrated the first at-sea refueling of the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program.
>A pair of unmanned surface vessels (USV) — the Ranger and the Mariner — demonstrated the task originally designed for the program’s Defiant USV.
>A long-endurance NOMARS USV is intended to be designed from the ground up without the necessity for humans on board.
>The design’s advantages include “size, cost, at-sea reliability, survivability to sea-state, and survivability to adversary actions such as stealth considerations and resistance to tampering,” [according](https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/no-manning-required-ship) to DARPA.
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That would be fascinating to see. I am a former squid, UNREPS were the worst. We’ve had people die doing those at night in rough weather. So much work to pull that feeling probe over, it weighs like 500lbs or something.
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>The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) demonstrated the first at-sea refueling of the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program.
>A pair of unmanned surface vessels (USV) — the Ranger and the Mariner — demonstrated the task originally designed for the program’s Defiant USV.
>A long-endurance NOMARS USV is intended to be designed from the ground up without the necessity for humans on board.
>The design’s advantages include “size, cost, at-sea reliability, survivability to sea-state, and survivability to adversary actions such as stealth considerations and resistance to tampering,” [according](https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/no-manning-required-ship) to DARPA.
That would be fascinating to see. I am a former squid, UNREPS were the worst. We’ve had people die doing those at night in rough weather. So much work to pull that feeling probe over, it weighs like 500lbs or something.