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Saronic CTO: The Massive Advantage of Unmanned Warships

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Saronic CTO: The Massive Advantage of Unmanned Warships

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If these are autonomous ships, well, you

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can remove things. I don't know what

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percentage of a Corsair or battleship

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are there to uh support humans on the

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ship, but I got to think it's half the

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mass of it is to is to keep humans on

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it. Am I directionally correct?

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>> That's a little excessive, but there is

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a significant percentage of the

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components, the cost, the labor that

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actually goes into catering to human

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beings on board. I would say at a high

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level, you know, you're really reducing

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the complexity of the entire product,

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right? You don't need to worry about a

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separate electrical system for humans.

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You don't need to worry about as we

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mentioned doors, bathrooms, stairs, etc.

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And then at the end of the day, you can

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actually start to end optimize a lot of

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different things. So even if you look at

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Corsair for example, you know, if you

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were to buy a commercial 24T boat, it's

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unlikely to be a thousand nautical

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miles. It's also unlikely to drive and

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have the control authority um of the

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boat that we've built here. Um because

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you don't have again, you don't have to

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worry about you know a person feeling uh

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you know you know taking in the middle

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of the ocean.

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Um, and so you can actually optimize

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across a bunch of different areas. Naval

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architecture, the speed, range, and

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payload of the craft itself. And then

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again reduce a lot of the complexity

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where you're removing subsystems that

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are meant for humans.

Interactive Summary

The discussion explores the advantages of removing human life support systems from ships, highlighting how autonomous vessel design allows for significant reductions in complexity and improved performance in areas like range, speed, and payload.

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