Having a little expertise in some of the promises, I thought I’d have a look. But the whole article reads like a procurement wish/pitch, not even specs yet.
There’s no peer reviewed physical way they can achieve some of the claims, and doubtful if it’s possible at all within current understanding of physics.
I’m happy to be contradicted though, it’s about time we had a new understanding of physics, Quantum mechanics is over a century old now.
Engine position below com, bow profile looks like it’ll try to push itself out of the water, ballast tanks what are those? And they want 50kph submerged?
If that’s the plan the current design looks far too rigid, they’d need to adjust their cruising speed based on payload to ensure consistent depth keeping. How would they lurk without floating up?
Any particular reason you would say it "looks AI generated"? A quick googling gave me this page that has a whole bunch of different shots of the submarine from a variety of different angles, as well as videos of it moving around. Some of it is likely mockups, some of it may be CGI, but one thing that AI is not particularly good at yet is consistency - that's clearly the same submarine in each shot, the details aren't varying.
While being blurry the background has lots of ships and detail that look “off.” The slant of the building was putting me off until I saw that this picture was coming from the UAE which has some wild architecture.
The page you linked from Highland definitely seals the deal that the Kronos is a real device.
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