Why the US can’t copy Ukraine’s robot navy

Ukraine’s sinking of much of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is “case alpha” in finding new ways to use robots across land, sea, and air, the U.S. Navy’s assessment chief said Monday. But the United States can’t just copy Ukraine’s homework and apply it to the vast, well-observed Pacific, or even the Red Sea, where it’s now tasked with enforcing a naval blockade and “getting a lot of unmanned stuff thrown at us,” Rear Adm. Doug Sasse said Monday

The Navy last week took possession of its first Sea Hawk, a 145-ton unmanned trimaran. It will deploy as part of the Theodore Roosevelt strike group in the Pacific later this year, Sasse said Monday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference.

By 2030, the Sea Hawk will be joined by “thousands” of small unmanned ships and “any number” of aerial drones by 2030 in the Pacific alone, Capt. Garrett Miller, commodore of Surface Navy Development Group One, said at the conference.

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