Posted on 05/29/2022 10:41:39 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
With the world's first drone mother ship, the Chinese military is expected to gather more intelligence in the disputed South China Sea, despite a security analyst assessment finding the ship potentially vulnerable to enemy interference or a technological failure.
Last week, China launched the world's first drone carrier, named Zhu Hai Yun, a vessel that can be controlled remotely to navigate autonomously in open water. It is expected to be delivered by the end of the year after completing sea trials.
The state-run Science and Technology Daily said the ship could be an efficient tool in marine disaster prevention and mitigation, environmental monitoring and offshore wind farm maintenance as well as delivering accurate marine information.
The ship is 88.5 metres long, 14 metres wide and 6.1 metres deep (290 feet long, 46 feet wide and 20 feet deep), with a designed displacement of 2,000 tonnes. It can sail at a speed of 13 knots, with a top speed of 18 knots, similar to the speed of a container ship.
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Stupid question: why are there portholes on an unmanned boat?
that memem is History Guy from Youtube. One of the best channels there is..
And, why does the bridge have windows?
I don’t know much about ships at sea, but it has a rather unique profile.
It was probably a manned vessel that was converted to be unmanned, not a purpose built design.
A separate article calls it semi-autonomous. A crew can take over when coming into a harbor.
I suspect there may be need for technical maintenance also.
IBM has an unmanned vessel crossing the ocean. It has broken down twice.
Somebody had to conn the vessel while in port I suppose.
That looks like somebody’s yacht.🤔
Modern version of the Soviet fishing trawlers bristling with antenna.
Front half looks like an Orca Whale.
That’s for the water to leak out when they pull it off the bottom.
Probably confiscated from one of their tech billionaires.
I was just reminded of a story from maybe fifty years ago.
A captain I sailed with had been a Panama Canal pilot at one time. He told me some bean counters felt that the cost of Panama Canal pilots was a very expensive part of the operation. They sent a team of “experts” to follow him through the canal to record and analyze his every move.
As he piloted the vessel he used all kinds of piloting skills that left them baffled. They wrote their task off as impossible.
One of the tricks was the phenomena of Bank Suction where he was able to suction the ship into a right turn when he was giving a left turn helm order.
They wanted to automate the pilots function.
That ship is going to make an excellent artificial reef.
It is still one of my dreams to transit the Panama Canal.
We never needle gunned any aluminum on the ships, only steel.
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