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Mysterious underwater "robot" found in China
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A few years ago a Chinese fisherman from Hainan Province caught something totally unique: a torpedo-like device that was about three feet long and metallic. He took pictures of the contraption and called the authorities, who swiftly came and took it away for examination. Now, the Chinese Government has confirmed it is an elaborate spying device.
It is now confirmed that the unmanned underwater machine, disguised to look like a torpedo, is an intelligence device capable of taking pictures with fiber-optic and satellite communication. It was secretly placed in the water by a foreign country to obtain information on the Chinese navy fleet’s operations at sea.
Experts worried that the acquired information may have been sent back and that there are many other similar devices that haven’t been detected in the water, which pose great hidden dangers to information security in the South China Sea.
Hainan Province, which sits at the gateway to the disputed South China Sea, is home to the Chinese Navy’s most strategic naval complex. On the southern end of the island, there are a series of massive naval installations, many of which are centered around the Chinese Navy’s burgeoning ballistic missile nuclear submarine fleet. These include shipyards, large dock areas where entire flotillas can assemble and be resupplied, and what is reported to be a massive under-mountain submarine base network that is accessed via a camouflaged tunnels.
If this device is indeed a unmanned underwater spy vehicle of sorts, it obviously would have a huge amount of things to look at and listen to in and around Hainan Island. But why would the Chinese authorities publicly admit that it was a foreign spying device at all? Maybe to make sure that people know what something like this is if they spot one in the future so that it can be captured or destroyed, and possibly to let external powers know they have discovered their mode of spying.
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Full article and more images here. Interesting read.
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at my first thought of it being something from NK
