Why DARPA's MANTA RAY submersible is nightmare for enemy subs

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On April 8, Northrop Grumman officially unveiled its new prototype deep sea drone, the Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV). This new undersea drone is designed to conduct extended-duration autonomous operations at long ranges with minimal need for human support, making it uniquely suited for a wide variety of undersea scientific and potential combat operations.
But arguably, it's most potent use could be as an element of America's anti-submarine warfare strategy.
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@SandboxxApp Ай бұрын

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@jaredyoung5353 Ай бұрын

Much bigger Fish! Opportunity missed

@steveshoemaker6347 Ай бұрын

ALEX🇺🇸 ❣

@henrythegreatamerican8136 Ай бұрын

The one thing I learned in this video is the fish's proper name. I always pronounced it Mana Ray!

@stnaes-tf4ow Ай бұрын

"Russia's military woes in Ukraine."?? Uhhh what military woes exactly? You're living in fantasy land --- stop being gullible to propaganda. Russia has completely embarrassed Ukraine and NATO throughout the war. Hundreds of thousands more ukrainian soldiers KIA than Russian soldiers. Russia has more military equipment, weapons, vehicles etc than they had to start the war --- Ukraine, not so much. Russia is on the verge of completely controlling the entire Donbas region, and they haven't even had to bring out their most advanced weapons in order to do so. Fact is, NATO's tactics are embarrassingly ineffective, which makes sense considering said tactics were developed fighting against farmers in flipflops and not agaunst a real military, much less one as powerful as russia. Ukraines military is close to being non-existent bc Russia is destroying them. Ukraine would've had to give up the war after the first year if not for NATO sending troops, weapons, vehicles, supplies. The only thing Russia has shown us and the military industrial complex te®®o®ists is that they're even more formidable than previously thought. Sooo exactly what Russian "military woes" are you talking about? You probably believe in the Ghost of Kiev and that Russians are fighting with shovels, don't you?

@stnaes-tf4ow Ай бұрын

@CaptainBrawnson Ай бұрын

"FLUID DYNAMICS IS FLUID DYNAMICS" -Northrop Grumman Engineer furiously drafting flying wings to operate in every medium.

@IndigoSeirra Ай бұрын

As a fellow engineer, I approve of this.

@harrisonlichtenberg3162 Ай бұрын

I imagine him looking cracked out like Charlie from it's always sunny

@maitele Ай бұрын

3000 soil-liquefacting desertskaters of DARPA

@kimweaver1252 Ай бұрын

Well, there are a few differences. Viscosity of the medium. The lack of compressibility of water. Corrosion and galvanic electrical currents induced by sea water and the contact between dissimilar metals. Stuff like that.

@jtjames79 Ай бұрын

Autonomous ocean gliders have been around for almost 20 years. They were originally designed for oceanographic research cheaply. All you have to do is change the buoyancy and attitude. Point the nose up, increase buoyancy, you go forward. Point the nose down, decrease buoyancy, you go forward. A solar panel and a little air pump is all you need.

@epapa737 Ай бұрын

I yearn for the day i hear "and this is Sea Power!" *Sea shanties start playing*

@BreakingMathPod Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤

@michaelgautreaux3168 Ай бұрын

"Yo Ho, hoist the colors..." 👍👍

@xSavageNoobx Ай бұрын

I’d only be on board if it’s sea shanty 2

@MK_ULTRA420 Ай бұрын

@@xSavageNoobx Same

@benjaminmountain6064 Ай бұрын

HERE HERE!!!

@jonathanregan4344 Ай бұрын

So this is the subs version of the F-35’s loyal wingman drone.

@karabenomar Ай бұрын

Loyal Finman.

@jonathanregan4344 Ай бұрын

lol that is perfect name, I was trying think of some good, you nailed it!

@jackwells2924 Ай бұрын

Seems more like an underwater RQ-180

@micksmith-vt5yi Ай бұрын

Lol Australia built the Boeing loyal wingman MQ28A Ghost Bat and now has a submersible that uses the same Aussie AI and is called Ghost Shark for tribute to Ghost Bat and both are Aussie animals. probably does the same as this but sadly looks more like a submersible and should of made it like this and called it Steve Irwin as died from sting ray lol..

@jackwells2924 Ай бұрын

@@micksmith-vt5yi y’all got a big black budget in Australia huh !

@MajinLiveTV Ай бұрын

Knowing DARPA's press releases on other projects this thing has probably been in development since the 1990s and is already operating in the Black Sea.

@karal_the_crazy Ай бұрын

I laughed hard at this one

@wolfeyeraven Ай бұрын

My firm belief is , anytime they are asking for funding for some revolutionary new plane or other weapon, the thing they are asking for money for is already in full operation for the last 3 to 5 years and is now a cover story for something new.

@castleincorporated Ай бұрын

@@wolfeyeraven nailed it

@FollowTheFreeman Ай бұрын

Agreed

@mikeku825 Ай бұрын

My thoughts on this was similar.. anything Darpa tells us is no longer operationally relevant as an emerging technology and is already deployed.

@vincetheboxingdude08 Ай бұрын

I'm Duke Leto Atreides, and this is desert power!

@damianketcham Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👍👍

@Jondoe18702 Ай бұрын

😂

@Jondoe18702 Ай бұрын

This is the best comment I’ve read in ages

@SwordOfApollo Ай бұрын

How about "SAND POWER!"...

@wiretrap1035 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this.

@dan2995 Ай бұрын

Whenever I hear Manta Ray and submarine in the same sentence I think of the old TV series Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea.

@bfiman1 Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same.

@jeffreymckie3328 Ай бұрын

You must be as old as I am. That sub got destroyed every week.

@i-love-space390 Ай бұрын

or the old Aquaman cartoon series.

@jacobhelms4421 Ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@martincunningham2562 Ай бұрын

Complete with the sonar ping sound.

@joeybabybaby5843 Ай бұрын

14:09 "way outside my depth". Oh that is perfect. Alex, you're the best at mking the dry and technical quite human.

@crazyvoyager8681 Ай бұрын

The ocean is hardly dry!

@SandboxxApp Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@neubauerjoseph Ай бұрын

It’s a common thing in sub warfare if you can dive deeper safely it gives you a huge advantage.

@HaykOhanyan777 Ай бұрын

@@SandboxxApp You're a dreamer...😢😮

@HaykOhanyan777 Ай бұрын

@@SandboxxApp You're raping people's brains 😊😅

@StudioVoodooMusic Ай бұрын

Fishing off the coast near San Diego, we captured an underwater drone that surveys the ocean and collects deep ocean data for weeks and months completely independently. It surfaces from time to time to transmit the data, and that's when we caught it. This technology has evidently been evolving for a long time and is relatively unknown by the public.

@p1zd3c Ай бұрын

I can testify that offshore Maine fishermen could fill books with what they've encountered out there, if you were ever able to get them to tell a 'flatlander' about it. To be fair, you won't get them to. Most won't even share what they've witnessed with their own families unless that family is crew, too. Even then, they're a tight-lipped bunch.

@danheidel Ай бұрын

These devices were invented at the applied physics lab at the university of Washington about 20 years ago. They have almost no moving parts. The whole thing is neutrally buoyant. Inside, there is a small oil reservoir that is slowly pushed in and out of a rubber bladder that changes the buoyancy so the device can rise and sink. It has wings that allow it to glide forward as it rises and sinks. One of these was able to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a small set of batteries. They are perfectly silent and can stay on station for months. The downside is they are very slow, usually 1-2 knots. I suspect these UUAVs use a similar tech to move around on patrol with backup propeller drive when it needs to move faster.

@V43xV1CT15 Ай бұрын

I was an offshore lobsterman out of Portland Maine

@carlosandleon Ай бұрын

@@danheidelthat wouldn’t change the buoyancy

@reallyhappenings5597 Ай бұрын

You saw Bigfoot? Loch Ness? Dan Quayle?! @@V43xV1CT15

@deepbludude4697 Ай бұрын

Very cool! back in the day I was a hardhat diver working for various Gov agencies I remember once doing a subcable inspection in 280FSW sitting on a deco platform and watching a whole platoon of huge manta rays just cruising around sucking up plankton.

@galexymitzelplik9560 Ай бұрын

Russian Sub: sir that fish just told us "Go Home"

@lucasokeefe7935 Ай бұрын

Hah

@generalgarchomp333 Ай бұрын

The fact that these would be drones makes that scenario even fucking funnier.

@user-jy3gm3tk6u 20 күн бұрын

Lol Good one!

@RMartin631 Ай бұрын

I tell people that the US has weapons that no one even knows about... until it's needed.

@MrSeanman30 Ай бұрын

That and SOSUS. We know where 90% of human machinery that's in the ocean.

@georgemacdonell2341 Ай бұрын

Tic-tac anyone?

@everettputerbaugh3996 Ай бұрын

We now have a self-deploying SOSUS that can stay off everyone else's maps by moving around. Cool.

@karal_the_crazy Ай бұрын

Yup I love speculating about what we have and don’t tell people about

@craigmackay4909 Ай бұрын

That 7th gen back engineered ET craft stuff.

@mikeck4609 Ай бұрын

How could the Russian subs know that they were never detected?. US subs used to follow Soviet subs around for weeks and they never knew it. It’s not like when we’re done following them we announce that we’ve been there.

@bryanhoppe1481 Ай бұрын

@mikeck4609 Used to follow Russian subs? I think it's safe to say we're following them today. Con! Sonar! Crazy Ivan!

@gregh8720 Ай бұрын

well if you can't hear the guy following you, its easy to say you've never been detected..... That's the Russian way.

@PerfidiousAlbion1815 Ай бұрын

British subs always knew where Russian subs were under the Arctic and remained undetected by the Russians… it also makes me wonder about multi medium UAP sightings as well, could these be Military undisclosed vehicles?

@donaldhobson8873 Ай бұрын

@@gregh8720 And if you can hear something following you, it's probably a whale. Or at least telling your boss that you weren't followed will get you promoted.

@MeanMachine1992 Ай бұрын

Russian Navy can't see you even if you tailgate their ships. The smoke from Admiral Kuznetsov's boilers alone is enough to mask three carrier groups.

@EuropeanUnionWarrior Ай бұрын

You gotta love DARPA. God bless America!!

@Dr.Jekyll Ай бұрын

One of my favorite channels. This is must see TV.

@josephmastroianni1560 Ай бұрын

Big help. I'm just a regular person in Boston media. A king of England HATED US. Pg1 US HISTORY CLASS NOWADAYS!

@greg.peepeeface Ай бұрын

agreed, and I think I've seen or watched every episode in the last year or two?

@jeffroid_tv Ай бұрын

Lmao! This is NOT Television!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@markbrisec3972 Ай бұрын

Definitely one of, if not the best YT channel for the layman military enthusiasts.. Most of the channels are either sensational in presentation, form or data, while some other channels are made for engineers by the people that don't know how to transfer their obviously vast knowledge... I especially love the fact that Alex covers all the latest developments and themes in the industry but not trying to be the first to tell the news but to be the one who covers it the best after some research... Sure, there are more and less interesting themes and topics he covers but I love the fact that Sandboxx branched out from mainly air power to other services.. Great job

@Dr.Jekyll Ай бұрын

@@jeffroid_tv artistic license, my friend. If I was accurate, and said KZfaq, the joke wouldn’t be recognized as referring to NBC’s 1990’s slogan. So if you’re laughing at me, start laughing at yourself, because you just made yourself the joke.

@blvck.8197 Ай бұрын

This thing has the potential to literally be the drones of Ukraine but underwater. You would have no idea your being watched until its too late. Imagine 50 of these just sitting and waiting in chinese harbors or the east china sea. It would be a check mate to any navy.

@bryanhoppe1481 Ай бұрын

W.S.K.R.S 😂. see SeaQuest DSV

@glennchartrand5411 Ай бұрын

They dive deeper .....deeper than most torpedoes can go. And because they are so quiet , their sonar works better.

@micksmith-vt5yi Ай бұрын

Australia has 6 AI submarine drones using the same Australian AI that is in MQ28A Ghost Bat drone..

@milklover4253 Ай бұрын

@@micksmith-vt5yiwoah there bud, we don't even know the actual wingspan of the whitebat, or the actual name, got a source for that?

@micksmith-vt5yi Ай бұрын

@@milklover4253 What MQ28A Ghost Bat size is online in many places just a bit smaller then a F35. But block ii Ghost bat is top secret and will go in to service with RAAF next year, bigger and can carry more weapons. Australia technology is more secret then any USA projects..

@Brett-fn6ks Ай бұрын

I truly appreciate that you feed my addiction to Military Aviation even in your Advertising.

@charleshopkins3817 Ай бұрын

Just another reminder that the ocean is terrifying

@ridethecurve55 Ай бұрын

and fascinating...

@-MeatsOfEvil- Ай бұрын

And wet!

@peekaboopeekaboo1165 Ай бұрын

USS Connecticut

@rippingbag Ай бұрын

Next step is for them to use whale song and dolphin clicks to communicate with each other and the US Navy. Potentially add fuel cell technology to charge internal batteries, needing to only sporadically surface for air, and you’ve got the perfect submersible weapon. One that blends in perfectly with the ecological background.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Ай бұрын

Given how far those animals can apparently communicate, I think that's a brilliant idea! Granted, it's by no means far _enough_ to be particularly useful (given the vastness of the oceans), but... perhaps non-biological means would be able to increase it enough to be.

@jamesogden7756 Ай бұрын

Your DARPA kidnapping... erm.. "hiring process" has been approved. Stay where you are. 😂😂

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Ай бұрын

@@jamesogden7756 Off Topic: If you flank a word with a dash, it'll strike the word: -kidnapping- (mind you, KZfaq's formatting is painfully "dumb" and so you have to encapsulate the _punctuation_ as well, or it'll break: -kidnapping-...) Of course, on mobile, it'll sometimes look like a cross between a strikethrough and an underline... But you take what you are given! 🥴 lol

@wagnerrp Ай бұрын

Now you've got large, low density, high pressure tanks that will empty out and need to be offset by ballast across the duration of the mission. That adds a lot of complexity to the design.

@MrScrofulous Ай бұрын

Until it becomes covered in seaweed and barnacles. Do you have any idea how much maintenance any underwater surface needs ? Especially anything sitting on the sea floor.

@xm8553 Ай бұрын

Really love the firepower and sea power series. Cant wait for the desert power series to start so we can get a video about the ornithopter!

@jloiben12 Ай бұрын

“Significantly stealthier [Russian vehicle]” is an insanely low bar. Of course any actual attempt to do more stealth would lead to significant improvements. But that doesn’t mean the actual vehicle has anything close to real stealth. Like a modern F-16 represents more stealth compared to most Russian aircraft but that doesn’t mean the F-16 is stealthy. And the fact that they are saying this is supposedly 2x stealthier than what America has only really demonstrates the validity of the above paragraph

@philsalvatore3902 Ай бұрын

The claim in the video is that the Borei is twice as quiet, meaning lower acoustic signature, than the Virginia class. I am inclined not to believe a categorical claim like that.

@JDogVids Ай бұрын

Perfect timing! Thank you for another amazing video!

@MrGameMeister Ай бұрын

The manta’s deployable drones should be called “Long range Autonomous Marine Patrol and Renewable Energy, or LAMPRE. Lockheed Martin you can thank me later.

@tomholroyd7519 Ай бұрын

Yeah we need to send out a few legged ones, too. Magnetically clamp to the hull of the sub, walk along on metallic crab legs for a while, making sure to make lots of noise, then leave. That should be interesting for the folks inside. tap tap tap-tap tap tap

@iamscoutstfu Ай бұрын

“Long Range Autonomous Marine Patrol and Renewable Energy" L.R.A.M.P.R.E "L'rampré"

@MrGameMeister Ай бұрын

@@iamscoutstfu Meh. Don't have to include ALL the letters ;)

@MrGameMeister Ай бұрын

@@tomholroyd7519 at 800 feet that would scare the shit out of me...

@SMathai Ай бұрын

coming up with acronyms is something that KZfaq comments can actually be useful for. I approve of the attempt. my attempt: Longlived Autonomous Marine Patrol Reusable Extras

@argonx666 Ай бұрын

I'm sure the US still has a SOSUS type of listening and tracking device around the entire northern US continent, along with permanent tethered and short term sonar buoys. I worked for a company a few years ago that manufactured military sonar buoys. Company sent me to the highly restricted San Clemente island test grounds off CA coast to test new sonar bouy designs, etc. I was completely blown away what could be heard, detected, and tracked from very far away. And the system knew exactly what and where that "signal" was. And that was years ago. What the US has now is definitely more powerful and sensitive.

@peekaboopeekaboo1165 Ай бұрын

USS Connecticut 🙄

@kayway9329 Ай бұрын

Man I swear it was just yesterday I asked for this!! Awesome thanks!

@willpugh8865 Ай бұрын

Casually includes clips of a robotic whale swimming around . wtf lol

@IndigoSeirra Ай бұрын

Same, like wth is that?

@castlekingside76 Ай бұрын

AI powered drones that behave like whales but are packed with explosives. The US has a miniature drone called the Black Hornet, it's literally a large metal hornet with super tech, but it behaves like a Hornet

@danielh248 Ай бұрын

Wow, another amazing video! I always get goosebumps about all this new tech used on the battlefield. Semper Fi!!!

@tazmokhan7614 Ай бұрын

Amazing vid as always Alex, love sharing this with my friends on FB and X

@unclescar5616 Ай бұрын

This is the earliest I've ever been to a Sandbox release. I wonder how I should celebrate

@jtg870 Ай бұрын

A guy I work with worked on this project. They made the bay doors that drop the sonar pods and the tethered drone. Kinda impressive

@jaredmartinez7323 Ай бұрын

I love the academe and intellect of most of your viewers based from the comments. Shows exactly what kind of content you make and what people you attract. Great stuff man

@dougwallis5078 Ай бұрын

"Sandbarr News," today? I like it! Great drop today, Alex.

@Greg_Andrews Ай бұрын

"Five times quieter" = Sounds like 100 stampeding horses instead of 500 stampeding horses. Great improvement! (just playing around....I think)

@glennchartrand5411 Ай бұрын

A person sitting a few feet away breathing normally is 10 Decibels A refrigerator running in the same room is 50 Decibels A shotgun blast is 250. Edit:(to make MrSeanman happy) A shotgun blast right next to your ear is 250 It's not a linear scale

@Greg_Andrews Ай бұрын

@@glennchartrand5411 It was meant as a joke, not to be scientifically accurate. hehe

@issackidd8117 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@MrSeanman30 Ай бұрын

@glennchartrand5411 250!? Its not a rocket lmao. But yes decibels are not linear, rather orders of magnitude.

@The_ZeroLine Ай бұрын

@@glennchartrand5411Interesting and useful info.

@bigmike9128 Ай бұрын

We're getting closer to seaquest dsv.

@NullElemental Ай бұрын

ha, first thing i thought of

@k.sullivan6303 Ай бұрын

Great video report Alex! I found it to be riveting, and informative.

@ioio5993 Ай бұрын

I see that these projects are reviving a number of ideas I put forth in our ADP proposal to the Navy 30 years ago.

@philsalvatore3902 Ай бұрын

Probably not revived. The ideas were probably being developed in various military labs with non specific appropriations and out of the public eye until there was sufficient technology maturation to permit building prototypes. I am not going to be specific but I can think of some other weapons that were envisioned decades ago but one or more technologies were not ready for a full development program. Different government labs had small teams of scientists and engineers working on those technologies all those years but there was no formal program of record. They were funded by the lab's discretionary budget and while not necessarily classified the work was not publicly acknowledged.

@dliu115 Ай бұрын

I cracked up at that pirate comment, well done

@JA-jx1hk Ай бұрын

They should make a massive one the size of a small town and call it arsenal gear

@KJD1984 Ай бұрын

No one does military news and explanations better than Alex!

@retrieversqbd Ай бұрын

The underwater threat is by far more concerning in my opinion. Thanks for a nice encapsulation of the various projects underway and still in development.

@ra-ge Ай бұрын

Future wars will be drone on drone fighting. Guess we're getting close to the Terminator's plot in real life, how exciting

@grege9862 Ай бұрын

Great content, Alex. BTW in my experience you are one of the very few people I've seen who looks just like I thought you would based on just the sound of your voice.

@vhostovich Ай бұрын

Best of all your recent episodes !!!

@DR-jq9bg Ай бұрын

Another great episode -- thank you!

@toolkit71 Ай бұрын

I have a lot of issues with this video, not for the content but for the projection looking from a civil engineer studying hydro. 1: manta ray shows that they are deploying a tether to go to the surface which might be great to allow for passive solar power for long term bottom. The problem with that is that the tether was shown to exit the vehicle and if that opening was open over a period of time would silt up and then not be able to retract and move. 2: Communication will be an issue with commercial bands, like it was said the first strike will be for the low band that submersibles currently work with. - A small sat phone on a tether (depending on how deep it is) would allow for ping type communications. Messages could be brief and encrypted. 3: Sitting on the sea floor for any length of time might prevent or impede the thrust from working so a buoyancy emergency might be required....didn't see that in the requirements. Overall, it is an amazing idea and one I would move forward with if I had a couple billion dollars, but some of the small details like electric engines cause a lot of noise....battery power, etc....all fixable but still need to be addressed. Thanks for your amazing content for the geeks of us.

@jttech44 Ай бұрын

It's likely mostly using buoyancy to glide around. Lots of ways to do this fairly passively. It can let the screws generate power when it glides, so, that's not an issue either. Coms are an issue considering known technology, all of which is decades old at this point. It's very likely that they've cracked that problem long ago and just aren't talking about it.

@stevenschnelz6944 Ай бұрын

@@jttech44 It generates energy by changing buoyancy and gliding, hence the name. The novel energy sources mentioned are only required when it is stationary.

@chipsawdust5816 Ай бұрын

My guess is there are no screws for propulsion at all. We get to see the public version only. You're certainly right about the whole silt issue though.

@metatechnologist Ай бұрын

The silting is an engineering problem it could probably flip over to de-silt. My worry is the power source. But it could harvest wave energy.

@Rob_F8F Ай бұрын

The Manta looks sick!

@robertandrew880 Ай бұрын

I don't think ive ever drooled soo much over one of your videos.

@vicnighthorse Ай бұрын

Good afternoon. Thanks again.

@RupertFoulmouth Ай бұрын

The energy generation tech is a good potential example of how military expenditures can benefit civilian sectors.

@Cyrribrae Ай бұрын

Yea there's potential synergy there. In fact, gradient tech probably works better at larger scales. It's just that the battery in the drone is probably small enough that it's sufficient. Not unlike how certain nuclear tech works great on a space probe and nowhere else.

@philsalvatore3902 Ай бұрын

In this instance it is the other way around. Find out how the Faroe Islands are generating electrical power from tethered underwater gliders.

@HubertofLiege Ай бұрын

The clams are listening, Igor

@MarkScanes-vu2yq Ай бұрын

Love your content! Keep it up!

@joependleton6293 Ай бұрын

The concept is great, having that glide ability will be very adaptive at responding to different depth. It looks inspired*

@iGottaRandomName Ай бұрын

Truly a weapon to surpass Metal Gear.

@tyvernoverlord5363 Ай бұрын

Russia making a sub quieter than a Virginia or Seawolf that isn't diesel electric? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight . . . I'm gonna swallow the whole dead sea.

@Angl0sax0nknight Ай бұрын

Russian Uber weapons 😂😂

@aaronho1914 Ай бұрын

My eyebrows raised as well upon hearing that it would be "two times as quiet as the Virginia class" just cause of a new propulsion system. The fact that the most quiet US nuclear powered attack submarine class, the Seawolf, stopped production after 3 cause of the end of the Cold War and the insane cost of just building the Seawolf class, makes it really just seems like standard Russian BS.

@MK_ULTRA420 Ай бұрын

@@aaronho1914 It will be an experimental vessel that will only see combat in a video game.

@kameronjones7139 Ай бұрын

@@aaronho1914 yup and the Virginia class has had insane technology dedicated to that as well compared to past submarines

@ironspaghett Ай бұрын

@@aaronho1914Like their nuclear arsenal? Gonna refine tritium for 20,000+ nukes with corruption high in the military and a GDP smaller than new York state Right

@GraemePayne1967Marine Ай бұрын

Several decades ago - I had finished my Junior year in high school ... My father reduced his previous work in aviation, & increased his work in designing surface watercraft. I asked him if there were any difficulties in moving from one to the other. He replied that there was not much difference. Air and water are both fluids, they just have different Reynolds numbers. We spent that summer building a couple of test articles (boats) in the garage ...

@henrycarlson7514 Ай бұрын

Interesting , Thank You . I hope they work

@MrSeanman30 Ай бұрын

Please just once! Say "EA Sports, its in the Game" lmao

@IanMaschal Ай бұрын

🤘🤘🤘Seapower!!

@dmfd123 Ай бұрын

Great stuff, Alex!

@namkhanhng1802 Ай бұрын

Imagine thinking that you are a stealthy sub, but Manta Ray is secretly live pinging your position, as a live ordinance is falling down your head.

@falkenlaser Ай бұрын

When I was 10 years old I imagined a fighter jet that could also function as a submersible vehicle, and take off from and land in the water…..

@SandboxxApp Ай бұрын

The US Navy explored a similar concept about a decade ago - a flying SEAL Delivery Vehicle that could land on water and submerge. We have a video about it if you’re interested!

@DavidTremblay Ай бұрын

There was also something like that in the seventies

@bryanst.martin7134 Ай бұрын

We may think we know a lot, but the marine acoustic environment can just swallow your imagination. Everything makes noise. Everything makes noise. And there are far more creatures in the Sea than dry land. And most are noisy. There is communication going on in the Sea every second. Then there is that pesky wind stuff. Waves make a lot of noise. You know what doesn't? Modern subs. To hunt them you need to be at the top of your field, top notch crew, top notch platform. You end up looking for the Hole in the water, where no noise is being made. The acoustic analysis programs out there today make the ocean look like glass. Truly impressive, with ever finer sensors available as COTS, I wonder what can come next. Gravitational sensors? How far is that above IR? Happening quick. I enjoy your posts.

@mr-huggy Ай бұрын

@Sandboxx Looks like the Northrop Grumman Manta Ray is a underwater sea glider much like the Liberdade Class underwater glider that the US Navy uses to detect submarines just a bigger. Underwater gliders change their buoyancy to make them go up and down and use wings to propel them forward. They are used for all sorts of research and can be at sea for quite a long time using solar power to recharge their batteries when they at or close to the surface.

@Dv087 Ай бұрын

Do more of these I love it.

@raventhetraumjager Ай бұрын

Mom, come quick! Alex just dropped another one!

@inoculateinoculate9486 Ай бұрын

@10:55 I love b-roll of randoms in hard hats pointing and gaping in awe at machines and computer screens, as if they don't see the same shit every single day 😂

@Brunzy1970 Ай бұрын

New Subscriber here bro, so keep up the great work ive seen lately.

@Alleeyin1933 Ай бұрын

I f’n love this channel

@Vince-jj8qs Ай бұрын

LOL and that is what they are willing to show you.

@Dani-hl3xu Ай бұрын

Russia has stealth submarines too, they were formerly t90 turrets

@chickenlittle2206 Ай бұрын

Good. Very good.

@NullElemental Ай бұрын

most of the black sea fleet is composed of submarines, its a special seafloor inspection operation

@casey360360 20 сағат бұрын

So what I'm getting from the animations, the Manta Ray sits in the middle of a current channel, released a tethered hydro-electric generator, and basically just sits there charging until a potential or known threat enters the drones AO? ... That's fucking SICK.

@ChrisLichowicz Ай бұрын

If they're showing this, there's something even better down there.

@raterNAZ Ай бұрын

with the thousands of "fishing" vessels china has all over the world it will be only a matter of time before they catch one and take it back to china for study.

@davedesigning Ай бұрын

I fear for the whales.

@BOBCAT4224 Ай бұрын

I fear for the country

@Aqua_PRINCE Ай бұрын

Man kingdom already fkd by the new generation thinking there is 3 sexuality’s in humanity

@seanknox5785 Ай бұрын

I whale for the fear

@-r-495 Ай бұрын

Shoutout to the Team House, was a great episode with you Alex.

@russdavis71 Ай бұрын

A couple of things that I have questions on. 1. The A.I. aspect doesn’t comfort me as not more than two years ago the U.S. government was securely against any A.I. having any control over a weapons platform so what has changed? 2. Resupply of weapons. If these systems are deployed and run out of ammunition how are you going to replenish them without destroying more of your own ships in the process either at sea from attacks from enemy vessels or putting a port in harms way giving away your position? 3. The power source. With the growing revelation that technologies exist that follow the work of Tesla where ambient energy can be drawn from literal thin air why should there be a need for batteries? Using battery technology is a 140 year old concept that has run its course where as having an energy source that is endless and can supply power without fail is the new frontier of innovation.

@Norwegian733 Ай бұрын

"5 times more quiet". Thats does not make sense. You cant multiply downwords like that...

@maleprincess62 Ай бұрын

🤦‍♀️ wait until you learn about fractions..

@evananderson1455 Ай бұрын

You underestimate my power!!

@CrazzyJokerr Ай бұрын

Of course you can, if it's only 20% as loud as others, it's 5 times quieter It's not pretty, but it works

@Cityb0y85 Ай бұрын

Give them to Ukraine

@shake4259 Ай бұрын

It would be good for testing

@Thatdamnsmith Ай бұрын

Imagine the damage to the Russian Black Sea fleet

@th3merper190 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 fuck Ukraine. Europe needs to do more for Ukraine, not the US. We owe Ukraine nothing. Tired of these countries treating the US like their sugar daddy...

@peekaboopeekaboo1165 Ай бұрын

Zelensky's days are numbered. 🙄

@Thatdamnsmith Ай бұрын

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 so are Putin’s

@sushibar777 Ай бұрын

These puppies should be equipped to approach submarines and release a device to attach to the hull of the target. This device would create a specific acoustic signal to allow US subs to track the target. The device would detach itself if the sub it was attached to came near the surface, so that the opponent could not retrieve it.

@chupacabra304 Ай бұрын

CRAB-BOT 🦀

@BobSpector-up7lw 13 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@user-martinpd Сағат бұрын

Good work

@purpleldv966 Ай бұрын

Interesting! Thanks!

@RedSinter Ай бұрын

Especially, the one reportedly carrying the Torpedo known as Poseidon. I've followed at a distance it's development along with the 100 Mph Csvitating Straight Line Torpedo. I like that the Navy is in the design and proto type development of a Submarine using the same idea.

@kameronjones7139 Ай бұрын

The nuclear torpedo Russia is developing? The usa isn't making one and doesn't really need one

@philsalvatore3902 Ай бұрын

Poseidon isn't quiet. You will hear it coming in plenty of time to engage it, and the subs that carry it will be tracked diligently just like SSBNs are tracked.

@budrohammbone2806 Ай бұрын

Well Done ! Given the current civilian propeller developments it would be really interesting to see the 'real' prop design...........

@KiwiBushcraftAndSurvival Ай бұрын

Immediately subbed due to being unbiased. This is critical in todays world.

@hooks4638 Ай бұрын

I dislike advocating for more spending but we definitely need to spend more on our Navy. The Marines too.

@themoonman-4 Ай бұрын

Bravo Alex!

@chickenlittle2206 Ай бұрын

I find it hard to believe either one of those methods for harvesting power could produce more than a very low profile wave generator.

@syringistic Ай бұрын

Awesome! @SandboxApp, is this going to be a recurring segment?

@SmokinGoodd420 Ай бұрын

I feel like Alex needs another channel on KZfaq for different types of content. Like reactionary to the common misconceptions in common physics in aviation, maritime videos . Its kinda crazy how far some of these are taken especially when other creators videos. Just an idea ! I really do appreciate the level of detail in these videos. Thank you!

@drmarkintexas-400 Ай бұрын

🎖️🏆💪🙏🏆 Thank you for sharing this

@richardmeo2503 Ай бұрын

Our coastal water commitment is the perfect place to assign our new and unwanted Littoral ships. Find areas that fit its capabilities and use them to patrol for enemy subs. The Manta Ray's sound great, but are still years from large scale assignments.

@StrongHarm Ай бұрын

Former U.S. Navy here. Outstanding brief, very clear and thorough. I do however, detect that Alex is deftly skipping certain "topics and conclusions" for the sake of OPSEC. I admire this and love this channel all the more. Big thumbs up and lots of mentions on other military analysis threads.

@rokuth Ай бұрын

From what I saw in the few videos that showed its actual propulsion system (screws/propellers), I do hope that they also look into new propeller/screw technology that have less cavitation when spun up. There are new propeller designs that are being used commercially that could be beneficial to the project.

@Adelfuns18 Ай бұрын

Great another threat I have to keep in mind when I go full captain Nemo and build my own Nautilus.

@CorvusCorax. Ай бұрын

Sucks to be you 🤣🤣🤣

@Adelfuns18 Ай бұрын

@@CorvusCorax. It doesn't, ill have some stuff under my sleve ready to deal with this manta and any other stuff they throw at me when my Nautilus is ready.