OPINION | Weaponised Unmanned Vehicles in the Indian Navy: Technology Outlook

OPINION | Weaponised Unmanned Vehicles in the Indian Navy: Technology Outlook

By Rear Admiral Dr. S. Kulshrestha (Retd.), Indian Navy In the Navy unmanned vehicles constitute four types of vehicles which operate in aerial, surface-land, surface-sea and underwater environments. Even though more glamorous terms like ‘autonomous vehicles’ are used to describe them, in reality, all these vehicles fall in the category of remotely controlled/piloted robotic vehicles. However, it is also true that in most of these categories, higher and higher degree of autonomous functioning can be built-in with the available technology. The question that arises before the Indian Navy is whether it is ready to go for development of autonomous unmanned systems, which would be cable of engaging a target and inflicting lethal damage on their own? Is the Indian Navy willing to develop technologies that empower the vehicle with embedded artificial…


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