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[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's more difficult as you need to be able to communicate with it and water blocks a lot of radio frequencies pretty well.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

you need to be able to communicate

Not necessarily. Piloting the weapon into position with internal navigation, then having the thing recognize and engage targets autonomously is becoming common with drones.

Also, you can just trail a very long wire behind the thing to communicate with home base. This is how torpedoes have worked going back to the Cold War.

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 11 points 1 day ago

True and there have been numerous advances in and deployment of drones with anti jamming basically dragging 5-20miles worth of fiber cable behind them. makes the landscape look like a giant spiderweb though so that's neat.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fly by wire extends to more than torpedos, missiles too

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

and water blocks

You've lost me here.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Just like air drones in Ukraine carrying kilometres of fibre optic cable, sea drones may do the same