ACTUV can detect, monitor, do reconnaissance and even deliver supplies to friendlies in hostile waters.

DARPA’s 130 feet drone is a ship that can effectively eliminate enemy submarines.

Although its christening is slated to take place On April 7, its currently harbored in waters nears its construction site in Portland, Oregon. DARPA has even begun conducting speed tests with it. Its designed parameters for public consumption has been slated to be 31mph. In preliminary speed tests, it has successfully reached this speed. Naturally, one would assume, it has been designed to traverse in open oceans in speeds in excess of 31mph.

In military circles, this drone is known as the ACTUV, or in other words the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel. Designed with the capability of using both short and long range sonars, as to as detect foreign submarines, ACTUV can even detect diesel engine submarines which make very little noise.

ACTUV’s design parameters include following enemy submarines in order to spook them and drive them out of friendly waters. The ACTUV can even be used for reconnaissance purposes as well as deliver supplies to far flung posts in hostile territories/waters. Being a drone, it is designed to have all of these capabilities with no human driver on board/

It will undergo more open water testing in California this summer. Here’s a video of its initial tests in Portland, Oregon.