• Nighed@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    It’s more difficult as you need to be able to communicate with it and water blocks a lot of radio frequencies pretty well.

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      1 month ago

      you need to be able to communicate

      Not necessarily. Piloting the weapon into position with internal navigation, then having the thing recognize and engage targets autonomously is becoming common with drones.

      Also, you can just trail a very long wire behind the thing to communicate with home base. This is how torpedoes have worked going back to the Cold War.