Transparent Sea: AUKUS looks to AI, quantum in hunt for Chinese submarines

Published on January 30, 2024



AI analysis of sensor data, including new kinds of quantum-based detection, could give a lethal edge in undersea warfare — to either the Australia-UK-US alliance or to China.

WASHINGTON — You’ve seen it in too many movies. Passive-sonar operators wearing headphones strain to hear faint traces of an enemy submarine. The crew of the hunted sub go quiet, holding their breath, as active sonar pings against the hull, searching, searching, searching….

But today, anti-submarine warfare is a battle of machines. Artificial intelligence algorithms piece together the acoustic clues from scores of scattered sensors that share data over long-range networks. And tomorrow, experts told Breaking Defense, new technologies — from robotic scouts to quantum sensing — threaten to rend the veil of stealth and expose subs to attack.

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