An army of underwater drones equipped with advanced artificial intelligence technology could hunt Russian submarines near the UK. The autonomous mini-hunter submarines, which can lurk underwater for months at a time, will use AI to listen out, detect, and identify Russian vessels.
The gliders—or drones—are part of a new system called Lura, which will, in essence, “illuminate” the oceans and make submarine-hunting simpler, The Times reports. Lura can, it is said, tell the difference between two ships of the same class because of acute differences within each vessel’s acoustic signature. The system, developed by European defence firm Helsing, uses what is described as a “constellation” of underwater sensors to trawl through acoustic data instead of humans to speed up reaction times.
