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China harbours ‘giant’ unmanned submarine aspirations

24th July 2018 - 00:30 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Hong Kong

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China has its heart set on large unmanned submarines that could be deployed worldwide, with an R&D programme currently under way at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This project could reach fruition in the early 2020s with their first oceanic deployment.

News of this artificial intelligence (AI) project conducted under the Shenyang Institute of Automation was revealed by the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based newspaper that often receives exclusive access when it benefits the Chinese authorities.

The newspaper’s sources also said these extra-large UUVs (XLUUV) are ‘aimed particularly at United States forces in strategic waters like the

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