World first bionic, robotic whale shark released in Shanghai Ocean Park

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World first bionic, robotic whale shark released in Shanghai Ocean Park

The world's first bionic whale shark "settled" in Shanghai and became the resident "guest" of the Volcano Shark Aquarium in Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park.

It is about 4.7 meters long and weighs 350 kilograms. Although it is huge, it can highly simulate the reality. The movements of whale sharks can independently complete straight lines, turns, floating, diving, depth setting, mouth opening and closing, gill slits, and bait throwing in the water.

Fang Xuelin, a member of the project development team and assistant director of Shenyang Aerospace Xinguang Group's Underwater Propulsion Technology Research Office, introduced that this bionic whale shark has technologies such as wireless remote control, program-controlled swimming, and multi-joint bionic propulsion. In the future, this bionic whale can also be equipped with different sensors to realize water quality monitoring, photography and other functions.

The world's first bionic whale shark debuts in Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park - Xinhua English.news.cn

Recently, the world's first bionic whale shark was unveiled at the Volcano Shark Aquarium in Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park. The bionic whale shark is almost the same as the real whale shark. The 4.7-meter-long "whale shark" weighs 350 kilograms. Wireless remote control, program-controlled...

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It's pretty huge, can it be modified into a stealth torpedo?

 

[Suehtam]

It's pretty huge, can it be modified into a stealth torpedo?

Do not.

What it can do is turn that into a UUV capable of carrying plug-and-play payloads (like the US Navy's Manta Ray UUV). But if the PLA wants to have some UUV with this format as a military function, it can transform it to carry out ISR, maritime reconnaissance, mine countermeasures, ASW functions among others.

For example, if the PLAN really wants to have some kind of constant underwater surveillance on the First Chain of Islands (FCI), it would suffice to fill the FCI with UUVs in this format with active sonars and the PLAN would have a situational awareness of the underwater aquatic environment, surpassing even surveillance networks like SOSUS which are a passive sonar array.

Just as the PLAN can create an active sonar network, it can also create a passive sonar network or a set of both, creating a greater description of the UUV's underwater sensor network.