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DARPA Will Launch A 132-Foot-Long Robot Yacht In April

• popsci.com

DARPA is the Pentagon's future-looking technology projects wing, and it's also the world's foremost source of bad pun acronyms for military machines. Even if the President is turning down Death Stars, there's still plenty more of the future to mine for upcoming wars. At a media roundtable in northern Virginia yesterday, DARPA director Dr. Arati Prabhakar and deputy director Dr. Steve Walker gave a glimpse of something new and strange: on April 7th, they'll be christening a new ship that's 132 feet long and features an onboard crew of exactly zero people.

The full name is "The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel", which collapses to the "ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel," or ACTUV, pronounced "Active."


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