Hunting Dive-LD; How the Revolutionary Guard Captured the American Subsurface…

Hunting Dive-LD; How the Revolutionary Guard Captured the American Subsurface System 🔺In recent years, naval warfare, like air warfare, has seen significant changes. Unmanned surface vessels and automatic submarines are gradually becoming a crucial part of the architecture of future warfare. 🔺The system that has been matched with Dive-LD in published specifications is not a conventional unmanned submarine in the classic sense; rather, it falls into the category of large-displacement automated underwater vehicles. 🔺The Revolutionary Guard explicitly spoke of "intelligence and operational insight" in its statement. This phrase has a special meaning in underwater operations. Detecting and tracking an unmanned craft underwater, especially a system designed for independent operations, requires a set of intelligence, identification, and monitoring capabilities of the underwater environment. 🔺The case of Dive-LD should not be viewed merely as a one-time operation. The main significance of this event is that it demonstrates that future warfare will not just be a battle of missiles and manned aircraft; a substantial part of military competition will shift to underwater systems, automated systems, artificial intelligence, sensors, and electronic warfare. 🔺In modern warfare, sometimes the most valuable victory is not the destruction of a system, but the discovery, control, and acquisition of it; in the latter case, the enemy loses not only an operational tool but also exposes part of its technology secrets to scrutiny.