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Navy Developing Little Autonomous Boats to Defend Its Ships
Long piece at Wired. Very interesting given the multiple uses that small surface 'drones' (what else do you call them in the vernacular) might have in force protection, search and rescue, supply, special forces missions and so on.

Posted by: Steve White 2014-10-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=401575