and it's got nothing to do with Santa Clause as best as I can figure it but I'm sure someone will make a connection. :-))

Fighter pilots are some bad mo fo's but they, at least, might have the ability to abandon ship in order to fight another day. People who ride in submarines...well...in my estimation they have past the point of bad A$$ and taken a trip to crazy land cause if you crack a shell on one of these at -2k...you're just gone.

So, I'm all up for this.

"The U.S. military on Thursday christened an experimental self-driving warship designed to hunt for enemy submarines, a major advance in robotic warfare at the core of America's strategy to counter Chinese and Russian naval investments.

The 132-foot-long (40-metre-long) unarmed prototype, dubbed Sea Hunter, is the naval equivalent of Google's self-driving car, designed to cruise on the ocean’s surface for two or three months at a time - without a crew or anyone controlling it remotely."