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Although the United States remains the world leader in anti-submarine warfare and artificial intelligence, China's efforts to harness "quality data" for military use have put Beijing far ahead of the Pentagon, according to a former US Navy admiral.
According to a new paper published in a journal run by China's aerospace defense industry, Beijing has made significant progress toward developing an AI (artificial intelligence) system capable of designing new hypersonic weapons autonomously.
“It was frustrating for all of us working with large excel spreadsheets, in deciding which programs to advance and which to curb”, said Admiral Bill Moran (retired), a former Vice Chief of US Naval Operations, while speaking at a Navy League webinar on artificial intelligence in November 2021.
On March 16, a team of researchers led by Professor Le Jialing with China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre in Mianyang, Sichuan, published their findings in the Journal of Propulsion Technology.
Le has been an advisor to the Chinese military on hypersonic weapon technology for more than three decades, according to the publicly available information.
As hypersonic research in China advances to Mach 8 – eight times the speed of sound – and above, the volume of experimental data to be processed and analyzed has also been increasing significantly, researchers say.
In such a situation, the human brain can no longer keep up with the rapid pace of hypersonic technology development according to Le and his team.
Countries across the world are racing to achieve hypersonic flight capability and an essential part of this race are simulation experiments that virtually create extreme hypersonic flight conditions in ‘wind tunnels’.
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