Manta Ray Submarine

[Das Boot]

Pretty cool. https://www.foxnews.com/us/top-secre...ed-google-maps

[CC Clarke]

This platform will make CAPTOR mines look quaint.

[Albacore 569]

I'm a bit puzzled by it shape. Why a ray shape? It is a typical useless internet article to wow you, oh look at its cool shape! (a 5-year-old level). It seems the shape is for efficient use of energy moving through the water and can store or collect sun energy when it is in a dormant sleeping mode? Disguising itself as another manta ray when in shallow clear water? Need Norman Friedman to explain please. lol. Sensors in its wing would give it arrays a wider base line for higher resolution. Analogy to wider spaced 'eyes', the better the depth perception seeing what's ahead. Any more info?

[DrSchmidt]

Perhaps deployable by dropping it from a plane....that thing looks like a blended wing body:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body

[redboat219]

to give it the ability to glide.

[Albacore 569]

Thank you. Getting up to speed. I know autonomous vehicles is the future. Who knows we may not have manned submarines any more just all by robots. I know that well along already. as usual, a classified world.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

See: The fiction novel by Edward Beach, Dust On The Sea.

[Marylandradiosailor]

For those interested in gliders ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVg47-5Skjs