It’s six foot long, weighs 100 pounds and it’s controlled by the US Navy. Yep, it’s a torpedo shaped like a shark and moves exactly like one too. Freaky, right?

According to The Inertia, the GhostSwimmer was developed by the US Navy to look like a blue tuna with fish-like movements through the water, making it harder to spot on sonar. It’s controlled by a joystick and can dive as deep as 300ft.

“The fish-like movements make it harder to spot on sonar”

So far, it’s cost US $1 million to develop. That’s a lot of a dollar to spend on a robotic shark. Last year, they moved it into the ‘Rapid Innovation Cell’ in the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research, so sounds like their taking the whole very seriously…

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