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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ocean Presence: A New Model of Naval Power

Naval power has long been built around scarce, expensive warships that concentrate sensing, weapons, communications, and crews in a few sophisticated platforms. Autonomy and global networking now make another architecture possible: a persistent naval mesh that distributes those functions among large numbers of specialized unmanned systems.

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ocean Presence: A New Model of Naval Power

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Naval power has long been built around scarce, expensive warships that concentrate sensing, weapons, communications, and crews in a few sophisticated platforms.

Autonomy and global networking now make another architecture possible: a persistent naval mesh that distributes those functions among large numbers of specialized unmanned systems.

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Naval power has long been built around scarce, expensive warships that concentrate sensing, weapons, communications, and crews in a few sophisticated platforms. Autonomy and global networking now make another architecture possible: a persistent naval mesh that distributes those functions among large numbers of specialized unmanned systems.

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