The Future of Drone Tech: Naval Launch Platforms || June 2, 2026

Scenario: Sea baby ex-gorges it's armed "mini-fleet" of FPV drones w fiber connected trail and what then happens to delivering Sea Baby? There is no "Kamikaze" need to destroy Sea Baby. Please chart path back to base and lure Russian 🇷🇺 fighter jet into open. Have you saved a missile to shoot vertically against now piloted interceptor? Or, shall we send in a squad of F-16's and "Swedish Gripens" to dispose of both? Or, do you still wish to risk "return to base" further with now vulnerable Sea Baby tech? 👽 #Radar

Aircraft carrier sea drones... what are those crazy Ukrainians going to come up with next? Gotta love it.

I agree with your big points, but some of your technical details are a bit wrong. 1-Radio controlled FPV drones tend to lose signal in their terminal phase not because of jamming but because they lose line of sight as they get low. 2-Sea drones don’t use line of sight radio, they use satellite comms and sometimes, when close to a port, the Russian cell network. 3-Ukrainian sea drones have been multi-mission platforms for a bit over a year now (not just suicide drones). So one boat may have anti-aircraft missiles to deal with the ship’s helicopter, then another has FPV drones to hit its radar, then suicide boats to finish it off.

Or the Iranians who want to keep the US navy our of their territorial waters. The P L A have repurposed their old fighter jets as drones. Rather than let them rot in the desert. I am guessing that they can carry "quite a number" of drones on an old fighter jet. Scary for Taiwan, Japan Korea, Australia etc etc.

Glad we have a secretary of WAR

When people are placed on death ground they are much more creative and innovative. They have to be.

Now, about those northern Gas tankers.... I think a new deployment would be the Baltic...and the Sea of Japan.

Any guesses on how sea launched drones will be used by Iran against the US Navy and how the Navy will defend against them any time soon?

More on drones and terrorism : https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/the-ungoverned-sky-drones-and-the-domestic-extremist-threat#footnote9_88w4qu6

Drones are a numbers game, naval destroyers w/99 launch tubes was once considered enough. Now with potentially unlimited manufacturing capacity, how long before we see a million, billion, trillion launched at a time...

This business of drones being used in simpler ways is a big concern. Peter are you concerned about drones being used by criminals or terrorists for assassination or bombings of cruise ships, etc. If so, what can we do to prevent such things? Thx for all your hard work.

Drone DEFENSE is lagging. However, for a relatively small target, like a naval ship or similar-sized building, laser weapons can engage and kill multiple aerial targets cheaply and may be a good addition in those limited circumstances. The problem is range, like a mile or maybe two, plus the weapons themselves are frightfully expensive and high-maintenance. So they won't become ubiquitous. Decent nets can protect stationary ships from naval drones. As for moving ships, not sure what would work. Maybe a laser weapon set high on the ship to get a better view down might work. Even guns with drone quality tracking and targeting (gun pods) hung over the side might work. Naval anti-drone, drones might be something to try. I could easily see a naval drone carrier launching thousands of aerial and naval drones at one time become a new paradigm. Current navies, including the massive aircraft carriers, seem obsolete now.

Iran is capable of using drones like this. Washington on the Delaware is highly vulnerable to them. What is the US doing to protect Washington and our seaports? Nothing?

I thought Ukraine didn’t have the cards 🤣🤣🤣 that famous White House meeting didn’t age well at all for Donnie J Trump.

Ukrainian's have also repurposed old soviet era light cargo planes (designed in the 60's) to carry multiple types of drones. The plane allows much longer range and loitering time. With pilot, load operator and drone pilot it can watch for and take out advancing columns

I would need to look at a map, but if that is going to the case moving forward, then the present 150 km range limit aught 2🐝 massively extended via ever larger Sea-Babies acting as carriers, and simply launching from locations anywhere there is deep enough waters. They should be able to just traverse rivers and even canals ... park-out ... and launch ... Havoc ... potentially waiting days for high-value targets to move into ... WeKilemOl ... positions/zones. So, Sea-Baby tech needs to improve ... quickly. Alex, 🍀Palmer ... CanWeGetOnDat💩 ...???...😐 ThatzNoduhFuknRequest- Ladz! ... 😾 LetzGo! ... 😾 ... 👏👏👏 No Excuses! ... ... ... 😑 JuzdPurrrrrformance! ... 😾 Please boyz ... ... ... 🤗 👼 GJob Pete. 🐈

Getting a nice tan peter.

I bet China is taking notes!

Sounds like something that could be very useful for the Taiwanese, Philippine, Thai etc. who want to keep the Chinese out of their territorial waters....

That would make a great charity auction item, a PZ hand made naval drone. We could give it a sweet name like From ZoG with Bomby MacBombface. I’d pay bout 3.50 for dat.