Tests have confirmed that advances in the maritime use of China’s home-grown satellite navigation system, BeiDou, could strengthen the ability of the country’s submarines and underwater drones to mount stealth strikes, reported the South China Morning Post.
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) said underwater precision positioning tests conducted by its No 716 Research and Development Institute in waters off Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, proved that it had overcome a number of core technical problems with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
CSIC, China’s biggest state-owned naval shipbuilder, said the tests showed that the BeiDou system could not only provide accurate and consistent positioning data to underwater vessels, but could also send tracking and positioning information from underwater devices to shore-based and surface stations.
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