I don't disagree with you that looking into alternative form factors would be a good idea. A great one in fact! What's the #1 reason to not just put a sailor o

I don't disagree with you that looking into alternative form factors would be a good idea. A great one in fact! What's the #1 reason to not just put a sailor on the patrol boat? Loss of life. While this is not the ideal solution to the problem, it's cheap ($2000 to retrofit existing boats? That's cheap!) It's similar enough to the existing technology that it's not going to be looked at as some new untested revolutionary thing, it's going to be looked at as an incremental upgrade to the patrol boat. It saves lives and it opens up the gates for more revolutionary designs in the future, as people get more comfortable with the idea. Seems like wins all over to me.