CSSC Launches World’s First “Drone Carrier”

Published
May 19, 2022 5:33 PM by

The Maritime Executive

CSSC Huangpu Wenchong has launched what may be the world’s first “unmanned vehicle carrier,” a research ship purpose-built for carrying and deploying unmanned aircraft, surface vessels and submersibles. 

The newly-launched Zhu Hai Yun is owned by Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), also known as the “Southern Ocean Laboratory” of Sun Yat-sen University. According to its sponsors, it is intended to help China’s…