{"id":133141,"date":"2025-09-10T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:08:08","slug":"autonomous-strike-drones-are-coming-to-australias-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133141\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous strike drones are coming to Australia\u2019s navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">In a move that should capture the attention of war risk insurers, Australia has committed $1.7 billion (US$1.1 billion) to building a fleet of \u201cGhost Shark\u201d submarine drones, which can carry out surveillance, reconnaissance, and strikes at sea. Developed by US defence start-up Anduril and manufactured locally, the extra-large autonomous undersea vehicles are billed as the \u201chighest tech capability in the world,\u201d according to defence minister Richard Marles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a move that should capture the attention of war risk insurers, Australia has committed $1.7 billion (US$1.1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32162,64,63,92131,91634,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-133141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-anduril","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-autonomous-undersea-vehicles","12":"tag-ghost-shark","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}