{"id":41440,"date":"2019-01-15T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/15\/the-us-navy-moves-toward-unleashing-killer-robot-ships-on-the-worlds-oceans\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:25:14","slug":"the-us-navy-moves-toward-unleashing-killer-robot-ships-on-the-worlds-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2019\/01\/15\/the-us-navy-moves-toward-unleashing-killer-robot-ships-on-the-worlds-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy moves toward unleashing killer robot ships on the world\u2019s oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The world\u2019s largest navy has spent the last few years feeling like it was being put in check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China and Russia <\/a>have heavily invested in anti-access technologies aimed at holding its main force-projection assets \u2014 aircraft carriers \u2014 at risk. Now the U.S. Navy and the upper ranks of the military are preparing to take back control of the game board, and it\u2019s looking to unmanned technologies<\/a> to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. surface fleet <\/a>has for the past few years sought to flip the script on actors such as China. The fleet aimed to move from a role of simply defending the carrier to going on the offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal was to spread out over a wide area to strain Chinese intelligence and reconnaissance assets and thereby exercise a degree of sea control in places such as the South and East China seas that China seeks to deny with long-range, anti-ship missiles and an ever-growing fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\t