"DARPA wants to build a fleet of drones stationed beneath ocean waters around the world that can quickly deliver supplies and equipment to Navy personnel near coastlines, on submarines or ships, and even aboard airplanes. The program, called Hydra, is currently in the early planning stages — just last month DARPA held a "proposer's day" at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics laboratory to drum up interest from defense contractors who will bid to bring the idea into reality.

The agency also says it wants Hydra to explore the feasibility of building underwater mothership drones that could launch smaller drones into the air and be used in battle. Drones deploying drones, unmanned and via remote control — this may sound like science fiction, but it's the future of warfare.

The agency has set a deadline of October 22nd for proposals from defense companies on what it would take to pull all this off. DARPA says it wants an actual working demo of the drone network by 2018."



http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/5/4699338/darpa-hydra-underwater-navy-mothership-drone-fleet

http://tech.sme.sk/c/6924946/americania-chcu-bezpilotne-ponorky.html