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

swed420 29 points 8 comments March 10, 2026
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swed420

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

gotwaz

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.

sinuhe69

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.

bix6

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

VegaKH

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

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