By the end of May, Chinese state media showed the launch of “Zhu Hai Yun”, a unit intended to transport an unspecified number of flying drones, as well as submarines and submarines. It's an autonomous ship with artificial intelligence.
In the past week there were sea trials of this unit in the South China Sea. Officially, the “droner” is to be a investigation tool, but according to experts from China and another countries, it is easy to see the anticipation of double-use of specified a ship as a fresh kind of unit in naval service.
This is most likely the first specified solution in the world, but another naval forces, including the United States Navy, are experimenting with the ability to carry out distant war at sea. – told journalists Associated Press Lieutenant Colonel Paul Lushenko, a specialist in global relations at Cornell University, fresh York.
The construction of autonomous fleets and comparatively inexpensive drones would importantly increase China's ability to enforce the alleged anti-access and refuse access to the South China Sea area, with the aim of weakening the US's long-term influence in the region – he added.
Unlike conventional aircraft carriers or destroyers carrying hundreds of soldiers, the aircraft carrier with drones could navigate itself for a long time, simultaneously sending devices forming a “network” observational, possibly besides capable of firing missiles. Ships specified as Zhu Hai Yun can besides improve the quality of seabed mapping by China, providing an advantage to their submarines.
Last period Chinese scientists presented an experimentation with a swarm of drones, in which 10 devices autonomously moved through dense bamboo forest, without crashing either on bamboo tickings or on each other.
A akin solution is likely to be applied to drones operating from an autonomous drone deck. More – groups of autonomous ships can besides act as a swarm, sharing information and creating collective intelligence. Of course, it is not a concept akin to the intelligence of man, but, for example, to the shoal of fish, which form in water forms, which are not the decision of a single fish, but the consequence of their collective cooperation.
Jean-Marc Rickli, Head of hazard at the Geneva safety Policy Centre, said to the AFP agency:
This would be a immense technological advance compared to the current weapon, which can be programmed and semi-autonomic, but must have human operators who respond to unexpected challenges. A fleet of self-propelled drones could theoretically overpower the defence systems or overpower the forces of their specified numbers, engulfing combat zones on land or sea until the enemy's arsenal is exhausted.
The conventional attack becomes impossible erstwhile we face tens, hundreds or thousands of devices, the improvement and operation of which is much cheaper than dense conventional weapons.
Source: AFP, SCMP
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