{"id":34921,"date":"2019-02-18T14:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/18\/china-is-working-on-killer-robot-ships-of-its-own\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:02:32","slug":"china-is-working-on-killer-robot-ships-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/2019\/02\/18\/china-is-working-on-killer-robot-ships-of-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"China is working on killer robot ships of its own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABU DHABI \u2013The Chinese shipbuilder China Shipbuilding and Offshore International Company is developing a small unmanned surface vessel that China wants to function essentially like the uninhabited baby brother of a U.S. Arleigh Burke destroyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JARI USV is a 20-ton, 15-meter boat that is orders of magnitude smaller than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2018\/01\/23\/no-slowdown-for-chinas-navy-aspirations\/\" target=_blank>People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy<\/a>\u2019s manned Type -55 destroyer but has all the same mission areas: anti-submarine, anti-surface and anti-air warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A model of the drone was on display at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/idex\/2019\/02\/17\/check-out-what-china-brought-to-one-of-the-worlds-largest-defense-exhibitions\/\" target=_blank>International Defense Exhibition and Conference<\/a> in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;The JARI comes equipped with electro-optical sensor atop a superstructure, a phased array radar, a dipping sonar, eight small vertical launch system cells, a torpedo launcher and a forward mounted machine gun and rocket launcher for counter-surface engagements, according to a model displayed at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2019\/01\/15\/the-us-navy-moves-toward-unleashing-killer-robot-ships-on-the-worlds-oceans\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sea_hunter.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US Navy moves toward unleashing killer robot ships on the world\u2019s oceans<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Navy is planning to take the first few steps into a radical future, which, if it comes to pass, will upend how the fleet has fought since the Cold War.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Navy has been increasingly discussing its desire to pursue unmanned technologies to fight on the surface and subsurface, employing a network of sensor and shooter drones to penetrate anti-access environments such as the South China Sea. The JARI seems to be at least part of China\u2019s response to that kind of warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the product video, the drone appears to be modular and reconfigurable for the different mission areas, but it\u2019s unclear what missions are permanently integrated into the system. In the video, JARI is shown alternately shooting down an aerial drone, sinking a submarine, machine-gunning a RHIB full of adversaries trying to steal it (after firing warning shots) and sinking a surface ship that looked a little like a littoral combat ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boat tops out at 42 knots and has a range of about 500 nautical miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, when China unveiled the design at a show in Africa, a representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navyrecognition.com\/index.php\/news\/defence-news\/2018\/september-2018-navy-naval-defense-news\/6515-aad-2018-china-s-csoc-unveils-jari-unmanned-surface-combatant-usv.html\" target=_blank>told Navy Recognition <\/a>that the drone was for use by the PLAN and for foreign sales and that a working prototype was being tested in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drone can be controlled by either a shore station or from a mother ship, Navy Recognition reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no word on what kind of communication link the boat would have and where exactly humans would be in the loop. 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