> What would a startup need to make this work as a business?
Extensive contacts in the submarine navigation ecosystem and several decades of deep knowledge of highly complex, highly classified, related navigation systems that this product would need to interoperate with.
This tech is not a magic locator machine on its own, it's a component that improves one small but important part of a very large and complex locator system and locator ecosystem.
If the startup has that sort of contact list and experience, it's probably not a startup, it is most likely a division of one of a very small number of very large defense contractors.
(And for those who might argue it's not just for submarines, if the startup has the relevant contacts in the submarine navigation ecosystem, it probably also has the relevant contacts in the other equally classified navigation ecosystems like for cruise missiles and etc., and the technicals aspects of this particular part of the problem domain will probably be relevant across other platform types, even if the details of submarine vs cruise missile inertial navigation platforms are different.)
Thank you, two more questions: do we expect that other governments in the world will build a similar system soon? and/or how many years of advantage does the Royal Navy have?
Nobody knows what the Royal Navy actually has. Nobody knows what other governments have. You are in the realm of what are the actual capabilities of nuclear weapons carrying subs. You can safely assume than anything remotely interesting is classified.
Yes.
> What would a startup need to make this work as a business?
Extensive contacts in the submarine navigation ecosystem and several decades of deep knowledge of highly complex, highly classified, related navigation systems that this product would need to interoperate with.
This tech is not a magic locator machine on its own, it's a component that improves one small but important part of a very large and complex locator system and locator ecosystem.
If the startup has that sort of contact list and experience, it's probably not a startup, it is most likely a division of one of a very small number of very large defense contractors.
(And for those who might argue it's not just for submarines, if the startup has the relevant contacts in the submarine navigation ecosystem, it probably also has the relevant contacts in the other equally classified navigation ecosystems like for cruise missiles and etc., and the technicals aspects of this particular part of the problem domain will probably be relevant across other platform types, even if the details of submarine vs cruise missile inertial navigation platforms are different.)