Chinese USV Development Thread

[para80]

If an area is declared restricted, taking images of it may be punishable even if there is nothing of any interest, let alone secret to be seen there. The same is true for Australia (where this was made abundantly clear to me personally).

 

[Deino]

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[by78]

A dockside image of the trimaran.

 

[Gogurt4ever]

Not to repeat an earlier question, but does anyone have a guess what the flat surface in front of the VLS cells is for? It is narrower than the VLS area, so it can't fit more UVLS rows. The graphic posted by @Cloud_Nine_ appears to show a set of smaller VLS cells.

 

[para80]

Original concepts suggested more cells but it may be a placeholder now or have other gear installed instead.

 

[iewgnem]

Not to repeat an earlier question, but does anyone have a guess what the flat surface in front of the VLS cells is for? It is narrower than the VLS area, so it can't fit more UVLS rows. The graphic posted by @Cloud_Nine_ appears to show a set of smaller VLS cells.

I wouldn't be surprised if they put swarming drone launchers there.

 

[lcloo]

Put on ASW gears for anti-submarine patrols would be fitting for a long endurance UVLS. Operational costs probably would be cheaper than type 056A and may be type 022, considering that no human/minimum human operators are required.

 

[Maikeru]

HI Sutton on JARI-USV-A:

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[by78]

A dockside image of the trimaran.

One image more at dockside.

 

[by78]

More images of JARI Trimaran USV from different angles + a spec sheet. It's quite a substantial USV.