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I've been pondering if such an idea would be practical. It is entirely possible to create a ship that can be controlled by computer as it is a plane or automobile, but with a ship it is more complicated considering the amount and types of systems. I just would like to hear others' personal opinions on this.

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Depends on the size. A 100 ton UxV launched from a mothership is probably viable on one level, while a 1000 ton OPV isn't. The crew on a warship are there to make sure the ship can sail into harm's way if need be (ie the crew is there to keep things running).

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That's pretty much what I was thinking.

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The Royal Navy may be interested. It will be reduced eventually to around 30,000 personnel; so any further means of getting rid of even that small number would go down well in Goverment.

There are small vessels like the Israeli Protector USV out there...

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That's the direction that my 100 ton UxV comes from. It's a growth of the current USVs rather than a shrinking of larger craft.

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Even the Arsenal ship, a largely automated, mobile missile battery, still was to have SOME compliment. Like was said previously, under 100 tons launched from a larger vessel. Perhaps an unmanned gunboat for harbor patrol?

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something small, but you must still have someone to remotly control her from a another boat.

with a better transmitter / receiver you should be able to remotely control it from a helicopter / aircraft or from somewhere on land via satellite!

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... ps/4229443

I saw this recently....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07 ... mand_game/

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I knew it would have to be small of course to be fully unmanned, it's great to see some of these suggestions though.

I find the unmanned frigate to be very interesting. Thanks for the links.

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