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Source: Global Times.

China builds world’s first autonomous seaborne drone-carrier

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China on Thursday delivered the world’s first seaborne drone carrier, the Zhu Hai Yun, capable of operating on its own. The unmanned carrier can be controlled remotely and navigate autonomously in open water. It will undertake marine scientific research and other observations.

The Zhu Hai Yun entered its home port of Zhuhai Gaolan port in South China’s Guangdong Province on Thursday morning and was officially put into use after a year and a half of construction.

Built under the auspices of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), the Zhu Hai Yun is the world’s first unmanned system scientific research ship with autonomous navigation and remote-control functions, and has been awarded the first intelligent ship certificate by the China Classification Society (CCS).

The design and construction of the Zhu Hai Yun have followed the principles of green intelligence, scientific support for unmanned systems and "sense of the future." Meanwhile, its power systems, propulsion systems, intelligent systems, power positioning systems and investigation support systems have been independently developed by Chinese research teams.

“This is the first professional sea trial of the Zhu Hai Yun, which aims to test its autonomous navigation performance and the launching of the unmanned craft,” said Chen Dake, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory.

For the first time, the carrier navigated autonomously for 12 consecutive hours, and realized obstacle avoidance and path planning. It achieved the desired effect and validated the design, Chen added.

The 88.5-meter-long intelligent unmanned carrier is one of the landmark achievements of the Southern Marine Laboratory, with a designed displacement of about 2,100 tons and a top speed of 18 knots.

The ship has a spacious rear deck, which can carry a variety of unmanned air, sea and submarine observation instruments. It can carry out comprehensive marine survey tasks such as ocean surveying and mapping, ocean observation, sea patrol and partial survey and sampling.

 

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This is better than aircraft carrier

 

the ship itself pretty small yet they carry drones to attack. 
 

recently we saw how ukraine drone penetrate russian land and north korea drones penetrated seoul

 

 

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30 minutes ago, Thaiyotakamli said:

This is better than aircraft carrier

 

the ship itself pretty small yet they carry drones to attack. 
 

recently we saw how ukraine drone penetrate russian land and north korea drones penetrated seoul

 

 

Drones and remote controls are more versatile and can prevent the loss of human lives.

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3 hours ago, Thaiyotakamli said:

This is better than aircraft carrier

 

the ship itself pretty small yet they carry drones to attack. 
 

recently we saw how ukraine drone penetrate russian land and north korea drones penetrated seoul

 

 

Great idea for TW? Then no manpower problem. 

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12 hours ago, inlinesix said:

One like to post news about China from Nikkei

One like to post news about China from Global Times

🤦‍♀️

Any source is better than shitty times with its inflated circulation and their incessant obsession on spinster sharon au 

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15 hours ago, Volvobrick said:

Great idea for TW? Then no manpower problem. 

Taiwan think cant even make a proper drone themselves had to rely to US to buy super inflated drone pricing

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1 hour ago, Thaiyotakamli said:

Taiwan think cant even make a proper drone themselves had to rely to US to buy super inflated drone pricing

If Turkey can make, TW sure can.  Whether they put resources into the project. 

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12 minutes ago, Volvobrick said:

If Turkey can make, TW sure can.  Whether they put resources into the project. 

Yeah actually making drones are much cheaper than fighter and probably easier too

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On 1/14/2023 at 1:47 PM, Thaiyotakamli said:

Yeah actually making drones are much cheaper than fighter and probably easier too

Like that who buy F35? Die lah, biz gone where to find replacement income? 

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11 minutes ago, Thaiyotakamli said:

Thats why usa said f35 is the last gen of fighter jet that carry pilot

NGAD is supposed to be manned and unmanned.

Drone still can't carry bunker buster

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