The future naval battle is "Unmanned"...Development of Unmanned Watercraft Group Operation Technology

Navy's unmanned watercraft repels imaginary enemy ships invading territorial waters
Unmanned Watercraft Group Operation Technology...Prediction of enemy penetration path
Unmanned Watercraft Performance Limits...Collective action ↑

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Unmanned power is expected to play a big role in future naval battles.

So, the unmanned watercraft appeared, and it is said that the Korean military developed a technology to collectively operate the unmanned watercraft.

Reporter Lim Hyung-joon went to the demonstration site.

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Five enemy ships invade our territorial waters.

Our Navy's 10 unmanned water boats request approval from the remote control center.

Soon after, you start firing according to the order to start firing, and you subdue the enemy's trap.

It's not an actual situation, but it's a demonstration of the technology to collectively operate unmanned water boats.

Using this technology, we can detect enemy traps and predict the penetration path of them with algorithms.

Above all, the great advantage is that it can reduce human damage.

[Seo Juno / Senior Researcher at the Agency for Defense Development: Replacing manned vehicles with unmanned vehicles can avoid loss of life in dangerous situations, and unmanned vehicles cost much less economically than manned vehicles..]

Although the unmanned watercraft has the advantage of being small in size, it has the disadvantage of short detection distance of sensor and narrow range of operating equipment.

Therefore, operating unmanned water boats as a group reduces these shortcomings and is effective in practice.

However, there remains a challenge to reduce the risk of hacking.

[Seo Juno / Senior Researcher at the Defense Research Institute: There is no technology for hacking defense. In the future, developing such hacking defense technology so that unmanned watercraft can penetrate deep into the enemy and perform their duties is also the subject of research.]

Future naval battles are expected to be led by unmanned or human complex systems.

Attention is focusing on whether the newly developed unmanned floating boat operation technology will change the future naval battle.

I'm YTN's Lim Hyungjun.

VJ: Moon Jaehyun
Drone provided: Defense Research Institute