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Идею Жириновского претворят в жизнь америкосы. Спящие до поры на дне боевые системы.
DARPA’s Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program is currently bringing this tactic to life, creating technologies that would allow the U.S. military to hide unmanned systems on the seafloor, even for periods of years, and activate them with just the push of a button. DARPA refers to these robots as having “falling upwards” capabilities.
“The goal is to support the Navy with distributed technologies anywhere, anytime over large maritime areas. If we can do this rapidly, we can get close to the areas we need to affect, or become widely distributed without delay,” said Andy Coon, DARPA program manager.
Researchers are now considering technical challenges to make these systems come to life. The UFP system envisioned would consist of three main components that would need to be explored further. These components are the “payload,” which executes the water or air applications after reaching the surface; the “riser,” which provides the pressure tolerance needed; and the UFP communications to trigger the launch.
DARPA will reach out to technical communities that conduct deep-ocean engineering and that can offer insights into signal propagation in the water and on the sea floor.
According to DARPA, the UFP program is not a weapons program. Depending on the specific payloads, these systems would provide non-lethal, but useful, capabilities such as situational awareness, disruption, deception, networking, rescue or any other mission that would benefit from these hidden seafloor robots.
When looking into the future of these systems, DARPA foresees unmanned aerial vehicles that would launch to the surface in capsules and then take off, providing aerial situational awareness plus networking and decoy functions.
A proposer’s day is scheduled for January 25, 2013 in the DARPA Conference Center, in Arlington, VA.
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