PLA Navy drill uses AI to trim warship's magnetic field, gets 60% more efficiency
Chinese navy has marked its first use of artificial intelligence (AI) in an exercise for warship degaussing, or magnetic immunisation.
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AI integration increased the efficiency of the process by 60 per cent, potentially boosting the stealth capacity and survivability of China's expanding submarine fleet, state media reports said.
The combat-readiness degaussing exercise took place recently at a PLA Northern Theatre Command naval base, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday.
The simulated emergency drill marked the first operational deployment of an AI-assisted decision-making system, and enhanced performance far beyond traditional manual methods, it said.
The base commander, who was not identified, told the official PLA Daily that 'degaussing is vital to a warship's survivability on a modern battlefield'.
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Troops simulated a 'combat-oriented' approach, using acoustic and electromagnetic modelling to test the process under realistic conditions, the newspaper quoted the commander as saying in a report published on Saturday.
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