Interwar sloop experiments provide a model for evaluating large uncrewed surface vessels. A new craft containing tens or hundreds of thousands of components will reveal teething problems when it reaches trials. Finding a failure in testing is useful because it gives engineers a chance to correct the fault before wartime. Black Sea-inspired concepts, paper designs, and mock-ups still have to become working vessels before navies can discover their practical problems.
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Uncrewed warships need trials before wartime trust
Interwar sloop experiments become a warning that large uncrewed surface vessels must reveal their faults in trials before navies rely on them.