The robot submarine
1) Large-scale robot submarines would have enough power to operate under TOP-500 class supercomputers.
The submarine would be suitable for transforming to independently operating robots(1), because of their large size and good energy supply. That allows equipping those systems with high-power computers like TOP-500 class supercomputers(2), what can use the energy, what comes from the nuclear power systems, or also the diesel-electric or power cell using conventional or non-nuclear submarines are using for creating electricity to their systems.
When we are thinking about the possibility, that those systems could launch their weapons independently, we might go too far. If the system would follow the signal of the ground station, and if the signal is cut, the submarine would attack, we must remember that there might be also a failure in the communication system, the result would be devastating.
1.2) The idea of the artificial intelligence-based systems is that the nations have a numeric value. The ground station will send the mark, that everything is alright.
The first or the most possible enemy would get the number one, and if the system can attack independently that thing, that the signal, what tells that everything is "OK" would cut because of technical failure or something like a solar storm, that thing could cause that the submarine would attack against that nation.
Status-6 (3) class multipurpose ocean systems, are shown that the new era of the submarines has begun. The semi- or fully automatic systems are coming to service of the navies, and that means that the manned submarine can operate with less than ten men and controlling the system would be similar to flying the combat aircraft. Only a couple of people can operate the large-scale submarine, what might ever come surface, and that means that the crew would not ever see those subs from outside, because that makes it possible to hide the national secrets of those boats.
2) Robot submarines would operate years in an underwater position
The independently operating robot submarines can patrol in the deep underwater, and when they would get the operational command, they would attack immediately against the targets, what are ordered to them, and that kind of submarines can hide underwater even years. The high-powerful computers allow using highly sophisticated artificial intelligence programs. And those programs are allowing the independent patrolling and attacking against other targets.
Those robot submarines would be like Status-6, which would mean that they would have torpedoes, ballistic- and cruise missiles and mines, what they can use to attack against targets. But they also might have fixed internal nuclear or conventional explosives. The last ones could be used against harbors in the case, where the nuclear attack would be a too tough option. Those systems are developing in the USA, Russia, Great Britain (4), and China (5).
2.1) The Chinese systems are claimed to be created for recon missions. But those drones might also have attack capacity.
But as we know no military force tells everything about that kind of system. There is a possibility that the attack models are already under development or those underwater drones have a secretive or non-published attack module.
When we are thinking about those robot submarines, they might be different sizes. Smallest would be torpedo-sized systems, which are equipped with fuel-cells or RTG (Radio-Thermal Generator) They might use sophisticated artificial intelligence and those systems could attack against every target from another side of the Ocean. They can slip in the harbors or search enemy submarines, and launch the warheads. The biggest ones would be the size of the ship, and there can be 50-100 megaton warhead inside the hull.
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