They got the idea from the 60's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Posted on 02/20/2023 6:29:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A new Chinese spying device has the capabilities of both flying through the air, and swimming under the water. The TJ-FlyingFish, developed by scientists from China’s Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems may have invented something much harder to see than a three school bus long balloon in the sky.
This small drone weighs only 3.6 pounds, and runs completely based on artificial intelligence, making a human operator unnecessary. When underwater, where it will primarily operate, the TJ-FlyingFish can swim at 6.5 feet per second, likely able to film and record everything it comes in contact with along the way.
The device only has a hovering time of 6 minutes, so it can be assumed the device is primarily for underwater use – until its hovering abilities are improved over time.
The specifications of the TJ-FlyingFish, according to Fox News:
It is an amphibious drone that can both swim underwater and shoot into the sky and act as a quadcopter.
3.6 pounds weight
6 minutes hovering time
6.5 feet per second underwater swimming speed
Runs without human intervention on artificial intelligence only
While the Chinese spy balloon was an invention with the intention of flying over land and most likely collecting data as it passed, the TJ-FlyingFish can do a similar function, however, collecting anything it passes in the water. This may give the device the ability to track moving Naval ships or other water movements – possibly including the ability to intercept any technological information that may be on a ship.
Probably meant to be retrieved by SCUBA divers.
Or the could just drop a sensor by the side of the road.
I want to see it hop in and out of four foot swells.
...... What a stupid headline ..... How the heck would a spying fish gather information on our land borne military assets like balloons and satellites do???
We call it CIC or sometimes POTUS.
Not going to be able to intercept radar and satcom and other signals intel that the balloons were probably after.
Not going to be able to intercept radar and satcom and other signals intel that the balloons were probably after.
They got the idea from the 60's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Bkmk
At some point it might be cost-effective just to nuke Beijing.
China is playing to win. We’re renaming buildings because it offends someone. And we have officials who can’t define what a woman is.
Big deal!
When are we going to do something about the most effective spy efforts they have operated for 60 years?
-Tourists
-Students
-Professors
-National Lab scientists & engineers
-Private industry scientists & engineers-
-Federal government employees
-Elected-politician families
-White House friends & consultants
“Developed” using technology which they learned from being the manufacturer of all of our devices and equipment. We have been sending our best ideas and knowledge over there since Bill Clinton gave them Most Favored Nation trading status. That was the beginning of the great sucking sound that came from the east and not the south.
US has a countermeasure. Little bluetooth transmitters tied to the legs of homing pigeons.
From wonderpopolis.com
Homing pigeons have been known to find their way home from as many as 1,100 miles away, and they can travel an average of 50 miles per hour with bursts of up to 90 mph. This ability has made them valuable as messengers since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians.”
The Jimmy Smits detective on NYPD Blue on TV raised and loved homing pigeons.
That about sums it up.
“The Jimmy Smits detective on NYPD Blue on TV raised and loved homing pigeons.”
The boxer Mike Tyson raises homing pigeons.
Didn’t know that.
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