This is assuming I think you have to have radio communication with the drones at all times? I'd assume more that you have tethered trenches scattered throughou

This is assuming I think you have to have radio communication with the drones at all times? I'd assume more that you have tethered trenches scattered throughout the ocean that you care about and can dispatch an absurd number of drones at will. No need to keep them moving on a regular basis. My general thought there was more that keeping an absurdly large fleet of mostly inactive drones a bit more hidden is almost certainly easier than keeping anything in motion and constant communication hidden. Is it necessarily a good idea? Probably not? I was only poking at the "first principals" taking the assumption of constant radio communication as a given. Why? We don't even assume that for submarines with people on them. Which, yes, we have people there so that they can think and respond with situational awareness to events. And I'm fully agreed that we don't want to jump straight to AI to replace people completely. But I also don't know why you wouldn't build a bit more smarts into deployments? And fully expect some of this to happen. (Realistically, I'm largely describing what science fiction used to imagine mine fields are like in the ocean?)