Will O'Brien
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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is maybe making single-digit million, if even.
But in the autonomous underwater vehicle, undersea drone space, we're looking at single-digit thousand autonomous underwater vehicles or underwater drones made every year.
And hundreds of them are made in China and hundreds of them are made in the U.S.
So it's not like a massive, like a total disparity here.
We're on the same kind of order of magnitude.
So the undersea domain is definitely a domain in which the US could create an advantage.
Now, that being said, China is moving forward itself on a lot of undersea initiatives.
So they're building, they just released this kind of submarine-sized autonomous underwater vehicle that has a range that can extend 18,000 kilometers.
So, you know, it could potentially reach the coastline of the United States.
And that's obviously a massive threat.
They also have cable cutting tools and they can operate at like a depth of like 4,000.
So this is a really serious like asymmetric threat that they have on the U.S.
now.
There's not many capabilities the U.S.
has in this kind of size variant.
And in addition to that, they're also building what they call like an underwater gray wall of sensors across the Indo-Pacific.
These would be sensors that you put down, pretty low power draw, and they can sense maybe submarines or other things moving and they're networked.
And it gives them this kind of undersea kind of GPS or navigating capability, which would obviously be very useful to them in the context of a war.
But they're not like leaps and bounds ahead of where the U.S.
is.
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