A famous Russian submarine design bureau is
working on a drone that imitates submarines.
The drone, tentatively named "Surrogat," could
be a useful decoy in baiting a trap…or escaping
one. The Rubin Design Bureau of St. Petersberg, designer of Cold War Soviet missile submarines
including the enormous Typhoon class, is working on this drone for the Russian Navy.
According to Russian state media, "Surrogat" will
have a deployable trailing antenna, allowing it to
"realistically reproduce the physical fields of the
enemy—the acoustic and electromagnetic." The
antenna will allow Surrogat to broadcast, for example, the sound made by a particular class of
ballistic missile submarine, as well as the sub's
active sonar signature.Surrogat will be 55 feet long and, thanks to
lithium-ion batteries, capable of operating for 15
to16 hours at a time. It will weigh approximately
50 tons with a maximum diving depth of 600
meters and a maximum speed "in excess of 24
knots." How could the Russian Navy use Surrogat? The
drone could be useful in wartime by hunting
NATO hunter-killer submarines tasked with
destroying Russia's ballistic missile submarines.
Surrogat could imitate a Borei-class submarine, with Russian attack submarines lying in wait in
an ambush. Any submarine attacking it will give
away its own position, allowing the Russian
submarines to close in for the kill. Surrogat concept of operation. Note the trailable
antenna is as long as the submarine it imitates. Alternately, a Russian submarine carrying a
Surrogat could launch it after being attacked,
programming the drone with its own unique
underwater signature and letting the unmanned,
underwater vehicle assume its identity. This is a
far more risky proposition since the Russian submarine would have to "run silent" on the
battlefield, and the enemy might not fall for it. Surrogat will also function as a training device for
Russian submarine crews. Mimicking the acoustic
underwater signature of any number of NATO
submarines, Surrogat could function as an
effective stand-in for another submarine in force-
on-force exercises. This would lower the cost of training, allowing Russian Navy crews to train
under realistic conditions more often. It's important to note that this story is coming
from TASS, an arm of Russian state media.
Government-controlled media in Russia is less
than reliable, often disseminating propaganda
favorable to the government or rather fantastical
stories about new military hardware. It's important to take the story with a grain of salt.
Still, there's nothing particularly unusual or
unfeasible about Surrogat. The Rubin Bureau also envisions Surrogat used
for classic underwater exploration roles,
including seabed mapping and prospecting. With
the waters under the Arctic opening up to
commercial exploitation robots such as Surrogat
are becoming increasingly useful. Let's hope that's all it ends up doing. www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a24176/russia-working-on-a-drone-that-can-imitate-any-sub/

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