Maritime wars might need AI assisted, whole battlefield and near field, 3D real time imaging, and distributed multispectral arrays.

Anders Puck Nielsen: Why are maritime drones so hard to beat? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX68_FZl8UE

Thanks for explaining why active electromagnetic radar based systems are so vulnerable. There are many passive, time of flight, correlating imaging array methods now. That is a mouthful, but an emerging set of complementary technologies that might one day give your people something better.

Acoustic, electromagnetic, and gravitational methods in the near field have progressed substantially in the last 20 years. What you probably need is a distributed multispectral array and it definitely might help to use gravimeters and gravitational detectors as part of that. You might want to search for “gravitational engineering”. But I do not get the impression you are trying to stop these kinds of wars.

Maybe challenging the groups or offering prizes would help. I am certain that AIs can be trained to play that “game” as efficiently as needed. But then the other side just buys faster processors and more kinds of sensors.

Your raising the issue might be enough to change things. This is NOT an NP hard problem. It can be solved. Probably with a change in strategy and the same “distributed sensors and processors” approach used by the attackers.

I must admit I thought the futurists of 60 years ago were a bit negative to say the world would watch and cheer armed gladiators fighting to the death on global “television”. This is close to “robot wars” but with living people operating the ships that are destroyed.

A spectator in this global news drama might say ‘Russia seems to like being admired for its brutality and disregard for human life’. Are they just waiting for a graceful exit so they can sell things openly in Europe and the rest of the world?

I filed this as “Maritime wars might need AI assisted, whole battlefield and near field, 3D real time imaging, and distributed multispectral arrays.”

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation