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The sky is high, the lake is vast, and ghosts are lurking.

One day in early winter, in the riverside city of Wuhan, a speedboat zooms across the Great Mulan Lake. Its stern engine propellers spin, stirring up white waves... A realistic comprehensive exercise is in full swing, employing mine countermeasures combat divers. A mine countermeasures diver from a minesweeper unit (dadui) of the Northern Theater Command Navy, headquartered several thousand miles away, arrived at the training camp at the Naval University of Engineering (NUE). The divers collaborated closely with the university's mine countermeasures teaching and research section to conduct focused research on the disposal methods for new-type smart-mines (xinxing zhineng shuilei).

“Mine warfare presents a significant operational challenge for the world's navies. In recent years, advancements in artificial intelligence and other high-tech developments have rendered mines more intelligent and effective, allowing them to autonomously seek out targets and detonate on their own. This evolution further complicates and jeopardizes the mine-clearing efforts of combat divers.” Zhang Zhiqiang from NUE’s Mine Countermeasures Teaching and Research Section remarked that finding ways to enable mine countermeasures combat divers to swiftly and effectively identify and neutralize these intelligent mines is an urgent practical issue that requires immediate attention.

Publisher

China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S Naval War College

City

Newport, Rhode Island

Keywords

China, PRC, China Maritime Studies Institute, CMSI, mine, minesweeper, minesweeping, Northern Theater Command, Northern Theater Command Navy, training

CMSI Translations #18: Combine Wisdom and Join Efforts, Training in a Sea of Mines,

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