{"id":194011,"date":"2008-11-01T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/darpa-looks-at-riverine-submersible\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:37:00","slug":"darpa-looks-at-riverine-submersible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/darpa-looks-at-riverine-submersible\/","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Looks at Riverine Submersible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that what they want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aab9fb812-1470-4983-ae14-687b08d9ebd0\">is extremely ambitious<\/a>, and may be very difficult to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>They are looking at the vehicle being able to semi-autonomously deploy in the treacherous waters of, &#8220;rivers, inlets, harbors and other shallow waters,&#8221; burrow in the mud, and conduct surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>It would need to navigate its way quietly through the frequently murkey, with turbulent currents and things like sandbars to further complicate things.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally they want to be able to sleep for an extended time.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that this is going to happen, but the the pictures are wicked cool:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img133.imageshack.us\/img133\/5633\/25a373c3bfe148bab8a12f7gv3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img186.imageshack.us\/img186\/6162\/de996ac7214e4bc8980c049pq4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that what they want is extremely ambitious, and may be very difficult to achieve. They are looking at the vehicle being able to semi-autonomously deploy in the treacherous waters of, &#8220;rivers, inlets, harbors and other shallow waters,&#8221; burrow in the mud, and conduct surveillance. It would need to navigate its way quietly through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1161,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-naval","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}