Ukrainian military used drones successfully against the Russian targets. The sea drones have shown their capacity to strike against the Russian navy. Those attack drones are transformed jet scooters and fast boats equipped with warheads. Those systems are shown their power, and the thing is that those systems are a very big threat in the wrong hands. The small, fast boats equipped with heavy anti-tank weapons and internal warheads are hard to see. And they are quite hard targets to defenders.
Things like hydrofoils that travel in very low depth make it possible for those systems can come to target from unexpected directions. That thing makes those systems dangerous in the wrong hands. It's possible to transform almost any speedboat in the world into a killer drone. The naval bases' security must re-estimate.
The hydrofoil technology can make, at least drone submarines more effective.
Once I saw a diagram of a miniature submarine equipped with hydrofoils. The name for that concept was Sea Cigar (?), but I might be wrong. The Sea Cigar is the idea for a miniature submarine that can travel fast on the surface and underwater. The idea is that the Sea Cigar is a regular submarine that can travel underwater using propellers. But that submarine has the hydrofoils that allow it to rise above the surface. The craft can use a similar technology as Swedish Candela uses.
But when the system needs to drive very fast. The drone submarine can use jet- or even rocket engines that give it an incredible speed. The idea is that this kind of system can travel near the target as submerged. But then it can select if it attacks the surface or submerged. The system is capable of traveling fast both submerged and surface. And that makes it even more capable than present drones.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/12/07/ukrainian-ingenuity-is-ushering-in-a-new-form-of-warfare-at-sea
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