Apart from black and white, i think skeptical when someone slaps the AI word into anything unmanned as if it is a magic to work it out.
To make an UUV with torpedoes and AI, one;
-First should master submarine design and construction, understand human factor and how to remove it from a design.
-Then weapon systems and integrated systems (CMS, sensors and sensor fusion of sonar, wake sensor, EMW sensor)
-Then AI, and decision making, put alone the decision making part and give it to an operator, partially autonomy is sufficient with situational awareness.
-Meanwhile mastering submarine operations in various conditions, to feed the AI correctly at least a submarine is going to be dedicated for this.
- Creating a threat and acoustic, EM, wake profile library, means monitoring and collecting data from various surface and submerged platforms, in straits, passage exercises, actual joint exercises.
-And finally assemble an L-UUV as claimed.
Even most experienced countries are steps away from achieving that. UUVs are still being designed as part of manned submarines, to be used as external sensors to collect data from far away, more silently. Highly under human supervision. Or being individual intelligence gathering platforms which occasionally surfaces and delivers the collected data, or can trail threats and inform the HQ so that the target can be engaged if seen dangerous.
Don't take Iran as an example here their UUV is for the show business, it is not truly operational as an UUV . You may look at Russia and US and how they are using the UUVs currently and how long, with their expertise on that field had taken them to make an UUV.
So it is for best to focus on ROV first to enhance ASW and MCMW operations, then UUVs to enhance it further and invest money on these in short to mid term. As i have told before anything is achievable with a solid roadmap. I am not telling it can not be done, anything is achievable with a solid ground.
Torpedo is technically an UUV they can start by making one.
Sonar is technically an AI, they can start by making one with a threat library.
How long do you think it took US to actually develop those XL-UUVs yet they still foresee a mid-far future to equip those with arms:
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