Cyclic places Sea Hunter-sized vessels in the task-group sensor role, with towed arrays and electronic support or countermeasures. Smaller surface craft instead collect wider maritime and oceanographic information, including thermal-layer and acoustic-duct conditions. Ranger's offshore-support-vessel origins provide range and an open deck for containerised payloads. Pacific transits and a reported uncrewed-refuelling demonstration illustrate the support problem being explored. At the larger end he tentatively recalls a 3,000-4,000-ton offboard magazine with sixty-four strike-length cells, preserving the estimate's uncertainty.
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Sea Hunter, Ranger and larger offboard magazines
Different US uncrewed concepts divide ocean surveillance, task-group sensing and additional missile capacity.