Filipino Fishermen Capture Suspected Chinese Underwater Spy Drone

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Soldiers gather around the Chinese-made submersible drone recovered near San Pascual, Masbate on 30 Dec 2024. (Photo: PNP-Bicol)

Local fishermen hauled in a six-foot-long yellow underwater drone off the coast in the Philippines that police believe may have come from a Chinese submarine.

Three fishermen found the bright yellow drone about six miles off the coast of San Pascual in Masbate province, police said in a release posted on Facebook.

The sea drone carried the markings - "HY-119" - referring to "underwater navigation and communication system," police said.


According to manufacturer sources, the Sea Wing can carry Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) sensors, as well as turbulence meter, Turbidimeter, chlorophyll sensor, dissolved oxygen sensor, nitrate and other biochemical sensors. It can also carry Acoustic sensors such as ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profile), underwater acoustic communication and hydrophones, as well as naval and military relevance.

USIC and naval personnel will have an opportunity to exploit this drone. Besides the Defense Attache office in Manila, US experts are in nearby Japan and South Korea.

Source:

https://www.ibtimes.com/china-spy-drone-captured-phillippines-3757793

http://www.hisutton.com/Chinese-Sea-Wing-Submarine-Drone.html

[NJCher]

1. The other drones

I read where the Las Vegas guy who killed himself wrote that the drones flying around the U.S. are Chinese. The FBI said they thought this was credible.

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2. Interesting the attacker would know that. Well, as Columbo would say, "the FBI boys'll be looking into that."

BTW: If Filipino fishermen were able to capture a Chinese drone, how come the US can't?

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Bird drones -- surprised it took so long.

Next: bee drones

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4. Hi eppur se muova: The world gets scarier and scarier by the day. Do we have AI drones yet?

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Ugh. Will they override orders ? Bolt for freedom ? Attack their senders ? Help their targets ?

Needless to say, SF authors have already written some scary stories about such possibilities. A real shame the people who work on these IRL have enough imagination to create them, not enough to see the inevitable, unintended consequences of doing so.

"What could possibly go wrong ?" is a question which seems to be asked only ironically.

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6. Technology is outpacing our ethical underpinnings. Assault weapons to A-Bombs to AI robots.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. We have been warned.

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom” - Isaac Asimov

Albert Einstein once said: "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." We can now add a few other technologies to that warning.

[C0RI0LANUS]

8. Indeed we can add some technologies to Einstein's prescient warning.

95% of the books I read and films I watched about AI were all cautionary tales, starting with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), the first AI creation.





Regarding the atom bomb, Einstein said "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."