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Military analysts says Beijing has to ‘respond strongly’ by catching up in the underwater drone race between the US and China following seizure of Washington’s sea drone in the South China Sea.
“For example, we could develop a technology for our drones to capture their drones or cut off their underwater communications,” said Li Jie, a Beijing-based military analyst as quoted by South China Morning Post.
Military commentator Yue Gang, a retired People’s Liberation Army (PLA) colonel, said the US drone had been “conducting espionage activities” in the South China Sea, collecting underwater information that could “be provided to its submarines, allowing them to freely roam under the water”.
“The drone is not very big, like a small robot, but if it found out enough about the underwater signal features of submarines, a database could be created which could be offered to US navy submarines and the anti-submarine warships,” Yue said noting that “this could pose a grave threat to China’s military security.”
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