海軍: Self-guided 無人の patrol boats make debut
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ― Self-guided 無人の patrol boats that can leave the ships they're 保護するing and 群れている and attack 可能性のある 脅しs on the water could join the 海軍's (n)艦隊／(a)素早い within a year, 弁護 公式の／役人s say, 追加するing the new 科学（工学）技術 could one day help stop attacks like the deadly 2000 爆破 of the USS Cole off Yemen.
The Arlington-based Office of 海軍の 研究 said it 首尾よく 論証するd the 自治権のある 群れている boat 科学（工学）技術 over two weeks in August on the James River 近づく Fort Eustis in Virginia ― not far from one of the 海軍's largest (n)艦隊／(a)素早い 集中 areas. The 海軍 ふりをするd a 輸送 through a 海峡, just like its ships routinely do through the 海峡 of Hormuz in the Persian 湾.
In the demonstrations, as many as 13 small 無人の patrol boats were 護衛するing a high-value 海軍 ship. Then as many as eight of the self-guided 大型船s broke off and 群れているd around a 脅し when a ship playing the part of an enemy 大型船 was （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd.
Robert Brizzolara, program 経営者／支配人 at the Office of 海軍の 研究, said that the boats decide for themselves what movements to make once they're 警報d to a 脅し and work together to encircle or 封鎖する the path of an …に反対するing 大型船, depending on that 大型船's movements and those of other 大型船s in the area.
The rigid-船体 inflatable patrol boats can also 解雇する／砲火／射撃 .50 caliber machine guns if called upon to do so. However, a human will always be the one to make the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to use lethal 軍隊, 公式の／役人s said. A sailor on a 命令（する） ship would be in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of each of t he 無人の boats and could also take 支配（する）／統制する over any of the boats at any moment. If communication between the 無人の boats and the sailor 監督するing them was ever broken, the boat would automatically shut 負かす／撃墜する.
"I never want to see the USS Cole happen again," said 後部 Adm. Matthew Klunder, 長，指導者 of 海軍の 研究, speaking about the attack by a small boat with 爆発性のs that killed 17 sailors and 負傷させるd 39. "I can tell you the systems we just put out on the water would've 妨げるd the Cole."
Brizzolara said the 科学（工学）技術 許すs sailors who would ordinarily be manning those boats to stay out of 害（を与える）'s way while still 許すing the 大型船s to 阻止する, 損失 or destroy enemy 大型船s.
公式の／役人s said while the Cole 爆破 was not the 単独の inspiration for the program, it was a 重要な one. 研究員s have been working on the 科学（工学）技術 for about a １０年間. The 道具, which can be placed on any small 大型船 and 含むs sensors and レーダ that tells it what's happening in the area. For 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making, 前進するd algorithms help the boat 計画（する） its 大勝する and 決定する its course of 活動／戦闘 and 速度(を上げる）.
Klunder said that 動員可能数 can いつかs be an 問題／発行する as to why more patrol boats aren't 護衛するing larger ships, and that 可能性のある enemies may try to より数が多い those boats. He said the 道具s could put more 保護の boats in the water, 解放する／自由なing up sailors to do their 職業s 支援する on ship.
"率直に, we've got a lot of instances where our sailors have to go through this high-value 保護 職業 when they should be 支援する manning 駅／配置するs on the ship," Klunder said. "We've really put our sailors 支援する where they need to be anyway, which is 支援する manning our 戦闘 systems, manning our 武器s systems, steering our ships."
Klunder said the 科学（工学）技術 should be rolled out to (n)艦隊／(a)素早い 指揮官s within a year. He said the parts for the small, transportable 道具 cost about $2,000 and can be 適用するd to 存在するing patrol boats, which are already 流布している at 海軍 取り付け・設備s and are 船内に many large 軍艦s.
The 海軍 said some of the system's 構成要素s were adapted for from 科学（工学）技術 初めは developed by 航空宇宙局 for the 火星 Rover spaceflight programs. What made the August demonstration so important is that it showed that 非常に／多数の boats could 調整する with each other, Klunder 公式文書，認めるd. He said it's the first time the 科学（工学）技術 has ever been 雇うd with more than one or two boats.
In the 未来, the 科学（工学）技術 could be 適用するd to 無人の 空中の 乗り物s, too. Klunder also said there's a 可能性のある for the 科学（工学）技術 to be used どこかよそで: "This is something that you might find not only just on our 海軍の 大型船s, we could certainly see this 利用するd to 保護する merchant 大型船s, to 保護する ports and harbors, used also to 保護する 沖合いの／海外の oil 装備するs."
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