And you've defined a harder problem! Once you've found it once it's much easier ...

NooneAtAll3 · 2026-03-20T19:58:06 1774036686

to be fair "relatively deep water" is 99% of seas and oceans...

bigfatkitten · 2026-03-20T22:12:53 1774044773

And “only so fast” can be north of 30 knots. The vessel could today be 1000km in any direction from where it was when you found it yesterday.

gorbachev · 2026-03-21T08:09:41 1774080581

Yes, but if you know the general direction of where it's going that reduces the search area quite a bit.

In this case, for example, the French Government publicly announced where it's going.

MengerSponge · 2026-03-23T01:05:05 1774227905

"Our next-generation AI uses multi-sensor fusion and live sentiment analysis to track military assets to meter-scale accuracy anywhere in the world"

"Upon closer inspection, the neural network is just scraping public information from the French Ministry of Defense"