Hmmm, so what about things magnetic signature, hardening against underwater blasts, dynamic positioning, getting in really small harbours and waterways.
Yes unmanned and organic systems will have a role to play. But binning current MCM technologies on the basis of possible future technologies..?
I remember being at Navy Days one year (1991?) and an Officer aboard one of the
Hunt class said that they had experienced an underwater explosion at close range - and been unscathed. A conventional steel hulled warship (GRP is stronger than steel in that way), without isolated machinery would have been sunk.
Can we afford to be so blase?
Anyway, back to CAD/CAM..........see
this.