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Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

Find 2012 years in the Hainan area
FROM 2016 years in the PRC, fishermen are awarded for catching and delivering "unfamiliar technical underwater devices" to government agencies.

“We hand over more - more will be given!”

It can be referred to as their own, lost PLA Navy, and about foreign devices, and no difference is made, did the fishermen catch them in their territorial waters, in the exclusive economic zone of the PRC, or outside.

Such devices include training or even combat torpedoes., training mines, antisubmarine sonar buoys, stationary buoys of hydroacoustic underwater observation systems, and, of course, underwater unmanned vehicles (BPA or, in English, UUV), as tethered, and autonomous. Reward, it should be noted, extremely solid for any country, not only for China - the amount reaches 500 thousand. yuan, it is approximately 72 thousand dollars. Of course, they won't give so much for their buoy or their torpedo (although torpedoes, even educational, are extremely solid money), but for foreign, especially spyware BPA, pay the maximum.

So, at the end of 2019 g. in Jiangsu province in Nantong city for finding 7 devices were awarded at a public conference 11 fishermen, including a woman. A year before there were 18 human, found 9 foreign devices. Everything is handed out at the local office of the Ministry of State Security of China, in a festive atmosphere and with press coverage. Why in Jiangsu? The vast majority of finds are exactly where they happen - this is a province with a large coastline, more 1000 km of length, well developed economically (in terms of GDP, second only to the province of Guangdong), with developed fishing and located near an important crossroads of sea routes - not far from South Korea and the DPRK, and Japan, to the south - the largest port and economic center of the PRC Shanghai, farther south - hostile Taiwan. And the bases and shipyards of the Chinese fleet are nearby. of course, in this region, the activity of foreign intelligence services is very high - as the activity of US intelligence services, Japan and South Korea vs. DPRK and PRC, and the activities of intelligence agencies, including marine special (Special Forces) DPRK vs USA, Japan and South Korea, Well, the actions of the PRC intelligence services, of course.

“Non-fishing” catch stories

In China, the state security authorities publish relevant announcements for fishermen and other citizens in the press - they say, if you find such unfamiliar devices, call by phone 12339 to the call center of the security service or via the website. Posters depicting BPA of foreign origin are published in the media and the Chinese segment of the Internet and are hung in ports, which can be found. And this, as we see, bears fruit. Find, of course, in different regions, but not everything is reported in the press. So, at 2012 g. BPA was caught near Hainan “foreign” (American actually) origin, made in dimensions, close to the standard NATO 324-mm anti-submarine light torpedo. Although it is unlikely he was released from the TA of a surface ship, judging by a number of details, it would not fit there in caliber, likely, was dropped from an airplane. BPA had a titanium case, satellite dish and camera set.

It was not possible to identify him for sure (perhaps, Chinese intelligence services were able, but did not share your knowledge), outwardly, it looked like one of the REMUS-600 BPA manufactured by the company “Kongsberg” series “Hydroid”, but a number of details indicate that, that this is a completely different BPA. For some reason, this particular case became very famous in China., and now in the news even the recent rewarding of fishermen is illustrated with old footage of the finds 2012 g. Other, presumably “Kongsberg” BPA REMUS-100, was found by fishermen from Jiangsu province in 2017 city, they caught a long time ago, obviously, lost by the owners and heavily corroded apparatus.

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

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Find out the origin of the found devices, of course, complicated. The bulk of that, what do they find, owned by the national navy, and such devices, lost by uniformed bunglers or stretched out by fishermen there, where to catch something, can, prohibited (but fishermen of all countries are not very disciplined), not advertised. Photos of foreign BPA rarely appear in the PRC media.. But still fall. In particular, the aforementioned poster for fishermen could identify such BPA, as Archerfish from BAE, Slocum and its military variant Littoral Battlespace Sensing-Glider, Artemis AUV и Bluefin-12. not fact, of course, that all these devices fell into the hands of the Chinese special services - they could well have pulled photos from the Internet.

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

The aforementioned poster and the transcript of the BPA types on it from H.I. Sutton
known, but, reliably about this BPA falling into the hands of the Chinese - Littoral Battlespace Sensing-Glider (LBS-G), found at the end 2016 g. Chinese ship. LBS-G, created on the basis of civilian Slocum company “TV line”, Is a non-autonomous device, in tow “underwater glider”, capable of carrying various types of detection equipment, in particular, multi-beam sonar for 3D mapping of the seabed and search for sunken objects. The device belonged to the US Navy, and did, according to the Americans, “peaceful oceanographic activities”. Chinese later, after US protests, returned them this BPA, and this whole story became known thanks to Trump and his twitter.

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

But the ship, from which this device was released, can be attributed to peaceful oceanographers exactly the same, how numerous “cruiser” our GUGI seems to be well-known “amber”. This is USNS Bowditch (T-AGS 62) the buildings 1994 city, US Navy oceanographer displacement order 5 thousand. t. This typical reconnaissance ship stays almost constantly in the waters near China and regularly gets there in history.. In March 2001 g. chinese frigate, coming up to a distance less than cable, forced this ship to leave the area “research” not far from the state maritime borders of the DPRK and South Korea. But they later returned accompanied by a US Navy battleship.. AT 2002 g. Chinese patrol ships drove him out of the area near the state border of China in the Yellow Sea, and in May 2003 g. “Boudich” rammed by a Chinese fishing seiner (rumored, the seiner was the same seiner, what an American - a peaceful explorer, the Chinese also have enough such ships), and got damaged. Checked in “Boudich” and near the Indian Nicobar Islands in 2001 city, what caused protests from India. And even the allied South Koreans got sick of his activities somehow so, that they protested the USA.

The LBS-G was picked up by a Chinese naval support vessel - a rescue vessel to assist submarines. maybe, the Chinese simply found an active channel of the hydroacoustic complex, who must be on such a ship, American towed vehicle, and cut off the cable for him with their BPA or somehow they picked him up, in general - honestly stolen. maybe, it was the multi-beam mapping sonar that interested them. Or maybe, wanted to interrupt the search for Americans, until they found something valuable. Towed vehicles and extended antennas of hydroacoustic stations were stolen before, including our sailors.

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

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Croatian catch

Need to say, that the Americans do not hesitate to follow the allies. Croatian fishing boat caught more, than expected, when it pulled something out of the Adriatic 6 January. “Marian II” trawled at depth 140 m, when trapped by a mysterious object. Device, weighed about 100 kg, was raised to deck. The crew and local media could only speculate about, what it is. The device was a cubic orange buoy with an anchor device under it..

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

Unknown device and a reward for their catch: Fishing in Chinese

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“Croatian catch” and his master
The captain of the ship not only did not know his purpose, but also could not see any signs, indicating, who does it belong to. After posting photos of the object on social networks, he, reportedly, received a phone call from the owner with a request to return the found. The owner turned out to be the US Navy. Horvath returned the device to the Americans, as they write, after some tense bargaining for rewards and compensation for torn networks. Installed this device the same, the same type “Boudich” “peaceful oceanographer” US Navy USNS Bruce C. Heezen - found out, having studied the readings of transponders on sites like marinetraffic.com. strangely, that the Americans did not turn off the transponder, when they were installing some devices, - ours usually do so, otherwise there is no point in such works.

According to some indications, renowned underwater explorer H.I. Sutton suggested, that the buoy consists of a firm acoustic transponder “TV line” and an acoustic beacon from “Kongsberg”. And the device itself ended up in Croatia, and then on board “Bruce Heezen” from Mississippi, from Hancock town, Where is NASA's John Stennis Space Center (where fire tests of engines for ILV are carried out) and there are institutions, related to NAVOCEANO - Naval Oceanographic Directorate of the United States Navy, generally, something like our GUGI. What was the buoy off the coast of Croatia supposed to do and who to watch, hard to tell. There are only NATO allies around, and our submarines and nuclear submarines are unlikely to often visit the Adriatic - it makes no sense. Can, of course, really were engaged in purely scientific research, and can, and there.

An experience, useful to many

Why are Chinese fishermen catching many hostile UAVs with their nets?? Well, At first, because, that the coastal fishing fleet of the PRC is very numerous, that is, statistics are in effect here. Secondly, against China, these devices are actively used, a, let us say, against Brazil - hardly. Thirdly, part of Chinese fishermen, as mentioned, fishermen are the same, as from the ships of the GUGI - pure scientists. Fourth, it is the Chinese authorities and the media that promote this topic, but in Russia, eg, silence about it, although the fleet and security, of course, work on similar issues.

Or maybe, and we should have announced such rewards, of course, for finding only foreign BPA, otherwise, our guys first of all catch their equipment - install it back later. Because the interest of the US and NATO intelligence in our waters is beyond doubt - what is Nyonoksa alone or test sites in the Novaya Zemlya area worth?, where such interesting things are tested, as RCC “Onyx-M”, “zircon”, KR “Caliber M” and SPA “Poseidon” and KR with YARD “petrel”. Of course, such areas are probably protected from such penetration, otherwise, it would not have been necessary to build some mushroom pickers out of themselves not so long ago and use other ways to satisfy curiosity for the state bill. But there are also other areas. Yes, in the field of underwater drones, Russia is at least at a level not lower than its competitors, and for a number of positions, of course, and above them - the same “Harpsichord-2R-PM” can recall, or such topics, as “Cephalopod”, not to mention the same “Poseidon” with devices supporting its activity. But stimulate the vigilance of our fishermen and sailors, probably, not prevent. How to intensify the creation of means to combat such small UAVs, and not only with small. Nothing yet, except for the same BPA, but destructive, and mining, “imprisoned” to combat small objects, does not come to mind. But surely those, who does it professionally, more ideas. And you, dear readers, what ideas to combat similar “overseas guests” come to mind?

I. Vyatkin, especially for “military review”

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