Anti-aircraft autonomous undersea system (AUS) with machine vision target acquisition

A system comprising:

• a plurality of submersible vessels, each submersible vessel of the plurality of submersible vessels comprising:
• a sensor subsystem configured to sense potential target information regarding a potential target;
• a database subsystem configured to store target characterization information;
• a processing subsystem coupled to the sensing subsystem and to the database subsystem, the processing subsystem configured to process the potential target information according to the target characterization information to confirm the potential target as being a confirmed target;
• and
• an ordnance subsystem, the ordnance subsystem comprising an ordnance magazine configured to store ordnance, the ordnance deployable against the confirmed target, wherein the confirmed target is an aircraft.

A method comprising:

• deploying to a location via a navigation subsystem, a sensor subsystem, and a propulsion subsystem;
• maintaining the location via the navigation subsystem, the sensor subsystem, and a dynamics subsystem;
• maintaining readiness via a power subsystem, a processing subsystem, a database subsystem, and an ordnance subsystem;
• coordinating operation via a communications subsystem, the processing subsystem, the database subsystem, the sensor subsystem, and a tracking subsystem;
• confirming a target via the sensor subsystem, the tracking subsystem, the processing subsystem, the database subsystem, and the communications subsystem;
• delivering ordnance via the ordnance subsystem, the tracking subsystem, the processing subsystem, and the database subsystem;
• and
• tracking the ordnance to the target via the tracking subsystem, the communications subsystem, and the processing subsystem.