Saronic CTO: The Massive Advantage of Unmanned Warships
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If these are autonomous ships, well, you
can remove things. I don't know what
percentage of a Corsair or battleship
are there to uh support humans on the
ship, but I got to think it's half the
mass of it is to is to keep humans on
it. Am I directionally correct?
>> That's a little excessive, but there is
a significant percentage of the
components, the cost, the labor that
actually goes into catering to human
beings on board. I would say at a high
level, you know, you're really reducing
the complexity of the entire product,
right? You don't need to worry about a
separate electrical system for humans.
You don't need to worry about as we
mentioned doors, bathrooms, stairs, etc.
And then at the end of the day, you can
actually start to end optimize a lot of
different things. So even if you look at
Corsair for example, you know, if you
were to buy a commercial 24T boat, it's
unlikely to be a thousand nautical
miles. It's also unlikely to drive and
have the control authority um of the
boat that we've built here. Um because
you don't have again, you don't have to
worry about you know a person feeling uh
you know you know taking in the middle
of the ocean.
Um, and so you can actually optimize
across a bunch of different areas. Naval
architecture, the speed, range, and
payload of the craft itself. And then
again reduce a lot of the complexity
where you're removing subsystems that
are meant for humans.
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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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