Jennings Brown for Vocativ reports he United States just got one step closer to ushering in the era of robotic naval warfare.A 132-foot autonomous submarine known as the Sea Hunter successfully completed its first performance test this week off the coast of San Diego, keeping it on course to enter the Navy fleet by 2018.

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