TYE GRAHAM and PETER W. SINGER
The drones that fanned out during a recent People’s Liberation Army exercise were dispatched by the Intelligent Precision Strike System, a new product from Chinese defense giant Norinco that used the UAVs’ real-time data to model the battlefield, track targets, devise strike plans, distribute firing information, and execute follow-up strikes.
According to the video playing in Norinco’s booth at the most recent Zhuhai Air Show, almost all of this was done autonomously except giving the commands to fire. Chinese observers also noted how the system fused battlefield intelligence from multiple sources. It epitomizes how the PLA aims to ensure dominance in the next era of conflict: with autonomous capabilities that blur the line between human oversight and machine execution.
Norinco’s Intelligent Precision Strike System is one of the ways that the nascent PLA Information Support Force is building a “network information system” that uses AI, cloud computing, and big-data techniques to fuse data from operational units and create “dynamic kill networks” across domains. PLA commentators emphasize the network information system’s critical role in modern warfare.
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