China on Wednesday successfully launched its first intelligent research mothership with self-navigating and piloting system in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province.
With a designed displacement of about 2,000 tonnes, the 88.5-meter-long and 14-meter-wide vessel – said to be the first of its type in the world that can be controlled remotely and navigate autonomously in open water – is designed for marine scientific research.
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