Naval Autonomous Systems: Strategic Technology or Costly Showpieces?

• Main Author: Balakrishnan, Ramesh
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Country and Region Studies; East Asia and Asia Pacific
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84860; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41997
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years many demonstrations of prototypes have been held to showcase futuristic autonomous technologies such as unmanned naval systems/drones. Both the US and UK, on the one hand, as well as Russia and China, on the other, have tested their autonomous naval systems. What does this autonomous...