China is about to show the world some of the weapons it has been working on in what is likely to be its largest ever military parade. Rehearsal photos posted online show the tarpaulined outline of what appears to be a large autonomous underwater vehicle, which would have big implications.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is unleashing a new generation of autonomous underwater robots that will fundamentally change the way future naval wars are fought. The U.S. Navy surely has an advantage, being slightly further along the development and doctrinal path than other less well-funded navies. But as is the nature of AI and robotics, it is a space where others can disrupt the established order of things.... [+]China is about to show the world what it has been working on.
One of the camouflage tarpaulins barely hides the outline of what appears to be a very large new underwater robot. Autonomous underwater vehicles, known as AUVs, are the naval equivalent of the killer drones that have rapidly become part of the air warfare landscape. Already a staple of U.S. war-fighting, weaponized unmanned air vehicles are now cropping up in the hands of non-state actors from Syria to Colombia. AUVs, on the other hand, are still the domain of serious navies.
In U.S. Navy parlance this is a Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, or LDUUV for short. Unlike 99% of the AUVs out there, these are large enough to carry smaller AUVs, or weapons such as mines or torpedoes. They also have sufficient range to loiter in the enemy’s backyard for days.
The U.S. Navy’s LDUUVs have yet to enter service so China may be set to catch up in overall terms. The British Royal Navy and Japanese Navy also have large-size AUV programs but those are in their infancy. Russia may also be toying with this technology with an unconfirmed project to build a squadron of large AUVs called Garmoniya, meaning Harmony.
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