Looking back into the history of warfare, we have brought many advancements in this
area!
From mechanical guns to the current prototypes of robot soldiers, defence tech is being upgraded
every day.
Well, you might be surprised in knowing how far we have advanced in destroying ourselves!
But, let's cut the cliche moral value session of, why we shouldn't build these things, and
let's dig into the topic of what's China has been building this whole time".
Feeling excited?
Let's get straight into it.
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Yes, as we were talking, China has been on its mission to develop some kind of concealed
form of underwater A.I.
robots capable of attacking enemy ships with torpedoes without human guidance.
China has been one of the most Ambitious countries but at the same time maintained extreme secrecy
with its function occurring inside the country.
But what they have done now has shaken its rivals.
These devices, also termed Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), were formulated in the experiments
which were being conducted over a decade ago and have now successfully managed to use artificial
intelligence to locate a target submarine and ambush it with a torpedo missile.
The experiments conducted in the Taiwan Strait, a contested body of water that Beijing claims,
with the island, as its own, showed the UUV being deployed on a fixed course almost 30ft
beneath sea level.
The vehicle was able to recognize the location of the dummy submarine, shift its course towards
the submarine, circle the target, and then fire at the sub with an unarmed torpedo.
This UUV used usual sonar and onboard detectors to retrieve data, which were evaluated and
assessed by the computer, to help it finalize the task and fire right at the target.
This oddly timed announcement came right after China warned Japan against its offering to
unite its forces with the U.S. military to protect Taiwan.
A viewpoint section in the Global Times asserted that Japan was' digging its own grave' by
proposing to uphold Taiwan from China by fighting alongside the U.S.
The story also explained that Japan was helpless against the Chinese military and advised it
not to pass over Beijing's 'red lines'.
The UUVs are already being wielded by commercial shipping businesses and navies, but they have
never been employed in combat.
And not just that, several UUVs have been washed up on numerous coasts in Asia.
In December, Indonesian fishermen found a two-metre unmanned underwater drone lying
near Selayar Island, just off South Sulawesi.
The device was revealed to authorities six days later.
Pictures disseminated in local media showed Indonesian military officers standing along
with the long grey drone, specified as a Chinese Haiyi, or 'Sea Wing'.
The high-tech unpowered supervision device is known as a glider.
It employs variable-buoyancy propulsion tech to analyze the waters.
Local media explained that the drone was in the pattern of a missile, and made out of
aluminium, was 225cm in length with a 50cm wing on its side.
And a rear antenna connected to the equipment is also 93cm in length.
The investigations about the UUV experiment were illustrated in papers composed by researchers
at the Harbin Engineering University in 2010 and were declared openly last week.
Scientists, led by Professor Liang Guolong, state that the needs of future underwater
warfare give rise to new advancement alternatives for unmanned platforms, especially in A.I.
He also added that the UUVs, which are likely to be developed since 2010, could be programmed
to be utilized in a faction and make concurrent attacks on a single target.
That's some impressive stuff!
And unlike human-guided launchers, these would be accurate, precise, and undoubtedly wouldn't
wait for approval on noticing an unidentified vessel.
Yup, BOOM!
And one wouldnt even get the time to realize that he is about to get hit.
So what's the stand of other countries towards this upgrade of China?
Let's see.
Using Artificial Intelligence isn't uncommon to most of the countries in the world; many
of them are presently utilizing this tech in warfare, particularly in locating and striking
enemy drones and battalions.
Countries like Israel have employed an AI-guided drone swarm to accomplish its assaults on
Hamas militants, which is believed to be a world-first.
In May, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) support unit deployed the swarm to encounter Hamas
militants who allegedly blasted rockets into Israel grounds.
Drones are generally steered by a human operator, but these drone swarms are a step ahead in
military technology.
They glide as one merged network of drones governed by artificial intelligence.
The flock employs only one human operator to authorize the drones before they find the
marks.
An IDF chief notified the local news media that the swarm unit has already carried out
more than 30 victorious operations.
The force intends to make more of these drone swarms ready to support the force.
Another example of this is from the U.S. Navy.
This is 'Orca', an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) currently being developed by Boeing
for the U.S. Navy.
The Orca project dates back to September 2017, when the Navy handed out contracts worth the
nearly U.S. $40 million each to Boeing, which had merged earlier in the year with HII to
build unmanned submarines, and Lockheed Martin to develop competing designs for an extra-large
unmanned undersea vehicle (XLUUV) which are capable of conducting autonomous operations
during its missions.
The vessel will be powered by a hybrid diesel/lithium-ion battery system, which fuels the Orca by the
battery while being submerged and recharges the batteries with diesel generators while
surfaced.
The claimed maximum speed is 8 knots (15 km/h), though the typical service speed is about
3 knots (5.6 km/h), which gives the vessel a span of up to 6,500 miles with vigour for
several months.
Well, this vast use of drones has triggered anxiety among nations and governments at the
United Nations have been disputing for months on whether a common global pact should be
approved on the practice of armed drones, autonomous and otherwise, and what regulations
should be sighted over them.
This concern was mainly placed over the incident, which occurred in Libya last year.
Western military experts are examining whether an autonomous drone administered by artificial
intelligence or A.I.
killed people for the first time without a human operator authorizing it remotely to
do so.
An article by the United Nations panel of specialists handed out last week concluded
the advanced drone deployed in Libya was hunted down and remotely engaged by the soldiers
who fought for the Libyan general Khalifa Haftar has also prompted a frantic discussion
among Western security officials and critics.
The U.N.'s Libya allegation is adding necessity to the controversy.
If these A.I.
drones did take off a lethal swarm attack, it would underline a different chapter in
autonomous weapons.
Critics of A.I.
drones, which can use facial-recognition technology, assert that they extend a number of moral,
ethical and legitimate difficulties among countries.
Coming back to the case of China, this is an alarming situation as, with more and more
countries formulating armed drones, there is a great hazard that the animosities surrounding
how drones are used and the challenges these pose to international legal frames, as well
as to democratic importance such as transparency, accountability and the rule of law, could
also heighten.
These types of weapons work on software-based algorithms taught over large training datasets,
for example, to classify various objects.
Computer vision programs can be educated to observe school buses, tractors, and tanks.
But the datasets they equip on may not be adequately complicated or strong, and artificial
intelligence (A.I.)
may comprehend the wrong lesson.
That's something which has to be taken into serious attention.
Because anyone with proper knowledge of this kind of tech can just lay off the lives of
many innocents.
What do you guys think about this?
Should this tech be forbidden or restricted from widespread usage?
Comment your views on this in the comments section below.
New technologies, mostly autonomous and unmanned systems, could further fuel the rising nuclear
dimension of the naval competition between China and the United States.
In particular, U.S. efforts to heighten its development and use of unmanned systems could
greatly widen U.S. ASW capabilities in destabilizing ways that China would be viewed as a threat
to the survivability of its SSBNs, which is the classification symbol for a nuclear-powered,
ballistic missile-carrying submarine.
So to avoid being disadvantaged, China would most likely be prompted to counter by building
more unmanned systems of its own and adopting more destabilizing military countermeasures.
So from these incidences, we can learn that these drone advancements have a lot of implications
regionally and globally too.
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