China’s brewing up a brainy torpedo that thinks fast and strikes harder.

Chinese scientists claim they’ve developed an AI system with 92.2% accuracy at cutting through underwater deception—pinpointing real submarines even when decoys are pulling off their best Ocean’s Eleven act.

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Old-school sonar? Basically a game of underwater roulette. This new system uses dueling neural networks, spectral snapshots, and even fake bubble trails to outsmart countermeasures at high speed. Smart torpedoes are no longer sci-fi—and China’s aiming to make sure theirs actually hit the real thing.