Thanks Porter. He’s a Siberian Husky puppy called Loki McSmokey.
Okay, let’s answer your questions!
Can Ghost Shark take out the Kerch Bridge, perhaps with a few siblings?
Not tomorrow. But maybe someday, if Canberra suddenly channels its inner Churchill, gives Ukraine a dozen of them, and someone figures out how to strap a few hundred kilos of high explosives to a torpedo-shaped stealth robot with a PhD in sneaking.
If Ukraine had a squad of Ghost Sharks, yes, the Kerch Bridge becomes a valid target. Not with a single bot, though. We’re talking coordinated strikes, with AI-driven swarm logic, like a digital school of piranhas with demolition degrees.
Can Ghost Shark destroy the remnants of Putin’s Black Sea Fleet in Novorossiysk?
You mean Novorossiysk, the new hidey-hole after Sevastopol became a guided missile testing range for Ukrainian naval drones? Again, theoretically, yes. That’s the whole idea behind unmanned undersea warfare: deny the enemy their sanctuary. Ghost Shark’s stealth means it could linger undetected, snoop around port defenses, and potentially loiter with intent. But here’s the snag: we don’t know if Ghost Shark is currently armed. Publicly, it’s still classified as an ISR (intelligence, surveillance, recon) platform with modular payload capacity. Translation: It can carry weapons, but whether it has them yet is another question. If Australia’s going full “down under deathbot” and strapping warheads to this thing, then yeah, Russia’s fleet is gonna need a bigger boat. Or deeper ports.
Can it shoot smart missiles from the eastern Black Sea way deep into Mordor?
We’re not quite at the stage where unmanned subs are launching deep strike cruise missiles autonomously. But again, we’re getting warmer. If Ghost Shark gets kitted out like a miniature SSGN, capable of launching precision weapons like TLAMs (Tomahawks) or Naval Strike Missiles, then yes, you could theoretically turn the eastern Black Sea into a missile garage.
But range and targeting data are issues. AI can help with navigation, evasion, and terminal guidance, but hitting targets in Mordor would still require coordination with satellites, real-time ISR, and deconfliction with manned systems.
Sweden and Finland especially need Ghost Sharks to stop the shadow fleet. True?
Dead-on. The Baltic Sea is the perfect playground for underwater drone warfare. It’s shallows, chokepointed, and full of Russian ships pretending not to be spying on NATO. The so-called “shadow fleet”, Russia’s commercial tankers and disguised naval auxiliaries, could be monitored, tracked, or even interdicted by AI-driven UUVs operating from Gotland or Suomenlinna. Sweden and Finland joining NATO wasn’t just symbolic; it was strategic. And Ghost Shark, or a Scandinavian variant of it, could turn the Baltic into a heavily monitored fishbowl where every Russian hull is tagged, logged, and possibly pinged with a surprise package.
Do you see any way that some production can be moved to UKR as a joint venture?
Yes, and it should. Ukraine is fast becoming the Silicon Valley of drone warfare. It’s got the engineering talent, battlefield urgency, and political will to produce war tech faster than most NATO countries can finish a meeting about who’s getting coffee. If Anduril was smart (and it usually is), it’d partner with Ukrainian firms to localize production, share AI training data from the battlefield, and prototype faster than a Pentagon budget cycle.
Picture this: a Ukrainian-Australian joint venture where Ghost Sharks are built near Mykolaiv, tested in the Black Sea, and co-piloted by Ukraine’s human-machine teaming units. Throw in some French sonar, Polish lithium batteries, and a donation from Musk’s underwater tunnel venture, and you’ve got a NATO-aligned Ghost Shark fleet haunting the Black Sea by 2026. God, I really dislike Elon Musk. But he’s occasionally useful.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. And of course the Black Sea haven for the remains of Putin's Black Sea fleet is Novorossiysk. I say potato, you say Novorossiysk. Thanks for that as well.
And before you bring it up, Anduril was of course the name of the reforged sword carried by Aragorn throughout most of Lord of the Rings. Very fitting indeed, but an outfit named Anduril of course needs to have some multiple destructive weapons on or in its UUV's so they can go hunting in the Baltic after they wipe out Putin's Black Sea Fleet.
I hope they can monetize their baby robot sub and get it into the field in numbers, and quickly!
I do hope as well that you're considering doing more informative video's. This one was super.
Thanks for your well-researched, frequent, and articulate communications. You are the best value on Substack, although for personal reasons, Eve Barlow is my fave.
Great video Wes, and love the white dog. Breed?
Can Spooky the Submarine take out the Kerch Bridge, perhaps with a few siblings?
Can Spooky destroy the remnants of Putin's Black Sea fleet in Novosibirsk?
Can it potentially shoot smart missiles from the eastern Black Sea way deep into Mordor?
Keep in mind that Sweden and Finland especially need Spookies on hand to stop the shadow fleet.
Do you see any way that some production can be moved to UKR as a joint venture?
Good job, encore!
Thanks Porter. He’s a Siberian Husky puppy called Loki McSmokey.
Okay, let’s answer your questions!
Can Ghost Shark take out the Kerch Bridge, perhaps with a few siblings?
Not tomorrow. But maybe someday, if Canberra suddenly channels its inner Churchill, gives Ukraine a dozen of them, and someone figures out how to strap a few hundred kilos of high explosives to a torpedo-shaped stealth robot with a PhD in sneaking.
If Ukraine had a squad of Ghost Sharks, yes, the Kerch Bridge becomes a valid target. Not with a single bot, though. We’re talking coordinated strikes, with AI-driven swarm logic, like a digital school of piranhas with demolition degrees.
Can Ghost Shark destroy the remnants of Putin’s Black Sea Fleet in Novorossiysk?
You mean Novorossiysk, the new hidey-hole after Sevastopol became a guided missile testing range for Ukrainian naval drones? Again, theoretically, yes. That’s the whole idea behind unmanned undersea warfare: deny the enemy their sanctuary. Ghost Shark’s stealth means it could linger undetected, snoop around port defenses, and potentially loiter with intent. But here’s the snag: we don’t know if Ghost Shark is currently armed. Publicly, it’s still classified as an ISR (intelligence, surveillance, recon) platform with modular payload capacity. Translation: It can carry weapons, but whether it has them yet is another question. If Australia’s going full “down under deathbot” and strapping warheads to this thing, then yeah, Russia’s fleet is gonna need a bigger boat. Or deeper ports.
Can it shoot smart missiles from the eastern Black Sea way deep into Mordor?
We’re not quite at the stage where unmanned subs are launching deep strike cruise missiles autonomously. But again, we’re getting warmer. If Ghost Shark gets kitted out like a miniature SSGN, capable of launching precision weapons like TLAMs (Tomahawks) or Naval Strike Missiles, then yes, you could theoretically turn the eastern Black Sea into a missile garage.
But range and targeting data are issues. AI can help with navigation, evasion, and terminal guidance, but hitting targets in Mordor would still require coordination with satellites, real-time ISR, and deconfliction with manned systems.
Sweden and Finland especially need Ghost Sharks to stop the shadow fleet. True?
Dead-on. The Baltic Sea is the perfect playground for underwater drone warfare. It’s shallows, chokepointed, and full of Russian ships pretending not to be spying on NATO. The so-called “shadow fleet”, Russia’s commercial tankers and disguised naval auxiliaries, could be monitored, tracked, or even interdicted by AI-driven UUVs operating from Gotland or Suomenlinna. Sweden and Finland joining NATO wasn’t just symbolic; it was strategic. And Ghost Shark, or a Scandinavian variant of it, could turn the Baltic into a heavily monitored fishbowl where every Russian hull is tagged, logged, and possibly pinged with a surprise package.
Do you see any way that some production can be moved to UKR as a joint venture?
Yes, and it should. Ukraine is fast becoming the Silicon Valley of drone warfare. It’s got the engineering talent, battlefield urgency, and political will to produce war tech faster than most NATO countries can finish a meeting about who’s getting coffee. If Anduril was smart (and it usually is), it’d partner with Ukrainian firms to localize production, share AI training data from the battlefield, and prototype faster than a Pentagon budget cycle.
Picture this: a Ukrainian-Australian joint venture where Ghost Sharks are built near Mykolaiv, tested in the Black Sea, and co-piloted by Ukraine’s human-machine teaming units. Throw in some French sonar, Polish lithium batteries, and a donation from Musk’s underwater tunnel venture, and you’ve got a NATO-aligned Ghost Shark fleet haunting the Black Sea by 2026. God, I really dislike Elon Musk. But he’s occasionally useful.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. And of course the Black Sea haven for the remains of Putin's Black Sea fleet is Novorossiysk. I say potato, you say Novorossiysk. Thanks for that as well.
And before you bring it up, Anduril was of course the name of the reforged sword carried by Aragorn throughout most of Lord of the Rings. Very fitting indeed, but an outfit named Anduril of course needs to have some multiple destructive weapons on or in its UUV's so they can go hunting in the Baltic after they wipe out Putin's Black Sea Fleet.
I hope they can monetize their baby robot sub and get it into the field in numbers, and quickly!
I do hope as well that you're considering doing more informative video's. This one was super.
Thank you sir! I was just giving you a hard time with the name. And Andruil is a great reference.
Thanks for your well-researched, frequent, and articulate communications. You are the best value on Substack, although for personal reasons, Eve Barlow is my fave.
That's okay, she's my fave too lol. Thanks for reading! or watching, rather...