The Navy’s Latest Technological Breakthrough: ‘GhostSwimmer’

What looks like a fish and swims like a fish might not be a fish after all.

The Navy’s latest addition to its arsenal, dubbed the “GhostSwimmer,” is a 5-feet-long, 100-pound Jaws look-alike and was developed by the chief of naval operations’ Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC) project, Silent NEMO.

Its purposes for now will be intelligence-gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance but in the long-term, it’s part of a much larger initiative by the military to explore what it can accomplish with biomimetic, unmanned underwater vehicles, WIRED reported.

“GhostSwimmer will allow the Navy to have success during more types of missions while keeping divers and sailors safe,”  said Michael Rufo, director of Advanced Systems Group, which assisted with development.

Rufo said the GhostSwimmer was developed to mimic the swimming style of a large fish, noting how it “swims just like a fish does” by moving its tail fin back and forth.(The Blaze..)