China Deploys 30k-Ton Liaowang-1 "Floating Supercomputer" to Gulf of Oman

(defencesecurityasia.com)

35 points | by swed420 11 hours ago ago

18 comments

  • curt15 2 hours ago

    This is obviously not about helping Iran, as the article tries to suggest, but rather to observe US assets and strategies in a live war, especially when lots of stealth aircraft are flying around without Luneberg lenses to mask their true radar signature.

    • awakeasleep 23 minutes ago

      I wonder if they also intend to have a role in providing evidence about who blows up the next grade schools, hospitals, and desalination plants

  • sinuhe69 10 hours ago

    Physical attacking such vessels is obviously not an option. But I wonder if directed targeted signal jamming and other electronic countermeasures could disrupt or at less severely affect such intelligence gathering. Intelligence gathering, specially signal intelligence is vital for future drone war, so I believe this question will become critical for everybody, regardless if they are pacifists or warmongers.

    • canxerian 6 hours ago

      Why is your first reaction to attack it?

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      • digitalPhonix 4 hours ago

        I think they’re asking from the context of it being a military vessel being deployed to a relatively hot zone.

    • exabrial 8 hours ago

      Why not use a few cans of hardware store metallic glitter spray paint on the radomes? Seems a bit cheaper than blowing it up.

    • Drblessing 6 hours ago

      > Physical attacking such vessels is obviously not an option.

      Why not?

      • Ekaros 16 minutes ago

        That is an direct act of war against near peer level opponent. They can't just roll over. But must respond in kind and cause at least similar or larger damage. Say sinking a aircraft carrier or a few.

      • poulpy123 5 hours ago

        Because china has the means to reply. It's one thing to bully countries that can't defend themselves like Venezuela, Cuba or Iran, it's another one to do the same with the factory of the world

      • 4gotunameagain 6 hours ago

        Ehm, geez, I don't know.. World war three ?

        Israel is doing whatever it takes to start it, we must resist.

  • bix6 10 hours ago

    Is that a telescope in the middle of the ship? It looks like the covering I see at observatories.

  • VegaKH 7 hours ago

    This is a long article that could be a paragraph instead and lose nothing.

  • swed420 11 hours ago

    PLAN Intelligence Ship Now Watching U.S.–Israel–Iran War From 6,000km Sensor Bubble

  • aaron695 6 hours ago

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  • gotwaz 10 hours ago

    Waste of time and energy. People forget how much activity happened in that area over 20 years during the Iraq/Afghanistan fiasco that didnt achieve anything. Same story will repeat because the chimp troupe cant handle that level of complexity no matter what toys they have. So its like spending time collecting data on ants, that have learnt to speak and have declared they are going to control the weather. There are better things to waste a life and career on.

    • dosssman 9 hours ago

      "Greatness cannot be planned" - K. Stanley

      Technology, methods and people at the time are bound to have been different, even if only slightly so.

      Throughout history, many things were thought of as wasteful and looked over, until some people serendipitously spent time and energy and found some diamond in the dirt.