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•From the results of the Littoral ASW in 2025 project,
SEA-8 formulated a series of recommendations concerning future ASW research,
development, tactics and doctrine.
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•In the area of Research SEA-8 recommends follow on study, using the
non-traditional systems envisioned in this report, to compare the relative
effectiveness of mixed combinations of ASW force alternatives with respect to
threats, geographies and political scenarios.
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•In the area of Development SEA-8 found the Littoral ASW study to show
that larger numbers of simpler (and perhaps less expensive) platforms
generated effective search rates that could not be matched by smaller numbers
of highly capable traditional assets.
To leverage this sensing advantage, SEA-8 recommends aggressive
development of autonomous UUV technology and UUVs that posses capability to
search, detect, track, trail and engage enemy submarines.
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•SEA-8 also recommends that rapidly deployable sensing
grids and the communication capabilities required to develop a common
undersea picture be developed. This
capability will be used to help cue UUVs to the presence of enemy submarines
and expand the effective search rates of more traditional manned ASW assets.
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•Finally, in order to unlock the full potential of UUVs
and remote sensors, SEA-8 believes that it is vitally important to develop,
in parallel, those systems that can give non-traditional assets greater
endurance and staying power. Systems
such as undersea recharging stations and rapid remote reseeding methods will
greatly increase the overall effectiveness of these future assets.
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