银色船体的海上无人机掠过水面，这是在台湾举办的一场展览的一部分，当地与外国企业正角逐分享政府在无人载具上激增的投资，以遏制中国。
Silver-hulled sea drones skim across the water as part of an exhibition in Taiwan where local and foreign companies are competing for a share of surging government investment in uncrewed vehicles to deter China.
随着中国军事压力增加，台湾正投入数十亿美元用于空中和海上无人机，这些无人机在俄乌战争和霍尔木兹海峡已被大规模使用并产生毁灭性效果。
As Chinese military pressure increases, Taiwan is pouring billions of dollars into aerial and sea drones, which have been widely used in Russia's war in Ukraine and in the Strait of Hormuz with devastating effect.
台湾军方表示，想要采购超过1400架沿海监视侦察无人机、逾20万架沿海攻击无人机以及1320艘单程攻击无人水面艇（USV）。
尽管在台湾安全支出规模上存在政治分歧，立法院近期通过了一项新台币2400亿元（约合74亿美元）的无人机防务法案，预计本月还将批准更多支出。
Taiwan's military has said it wants to acquire more than 1,400 coastal surveillance and reconnaissance drones, over 200,000 coastal attack drones and 1,320 one-way attack uncrewed surface vessels (USVs).-Taiwan flights, they will fly’: MEA after Pakistan blocks airspace over 'One-China' policyDespite political divisions over how much to spend on Taiwan's security, the parliament recently passed a NT$240 billion (US$7.4 billion) drone defence bill, with more spending expected to be approved this month.
周一，在南部城市台南的一处游艇度假村，来自台湾、美国和新加坡的海上无人机制造商向台湾政府及其他官员展示了无人水面艇（USV）和无人水下航行器（UUV）。
At a yacht resort in the southern city of Tainan, sea drone manufacturers from Taiwan, the United States and Singapore introduced USVs and uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) to Taiwanese government and other officials on Monday.USVs several metres long and capable of carrying bombs churned up the marina's still waters as they showed off their speed and agility, while UUVs, designed to inspect the seabed hovered below the surface.
数米长、可携带炸弹的无人水面艇在港湾平静的水面上激起浪花，展示其速度与灵活性；用于检查海床的无人水下航行器则在水面下悬停。台湾“现在拥有全球最大规模的无人水面艇采购计划……“这就是为什么所有公司都来这里”，政府支持的民主、社会与新兴科技研究院政策分析师方凯蒂在示威活动现场接受法新社采访时表示。
Taiwan has "the largest procurement for USVs in the world right now... and that's why all the companies come here", Cathy Fang, a policy analyst at the government-backed Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology, told AFP on the sidelines of the demonstration.
台湾旨在成为不含中国零部件的无人机生产“亚洲枢纽”，利用该岛在人工智能技术和半导体制造领域的主导地位。
Taiwan aims to become an "Asian hub" for the production of drones free of Chinese components, capitalising on the island's dominance of AI technology and semiconductor manufacturing.
虽然台湾凭借造船和遥控玩具的经验，已具备制造高科技海上无人艇的技术，但该岛渴望与系统经过实战检验、且拥有更好软件的外国公司合作。
While Taiwan already has the know-how to make high-tech sea drones due to its experience in shipbuilding and remote-controlled toys, the island is keen to work with foreign firms whose systems are battle-tested and have better software.
在最近的一笔交易中，总部位于佛罗里达州的海战战术系统公司宣布，台湾海巡署将购买其25艘无人水面艇，这些艇将在美国和台湾制造。
In a recent deal, Florida-based Maritime Tactical Systems announced Taiwan's coast guard will buy 25 of its USVs that will be made in the United States and Taiwan."
“我们正在对台湾进行投资，”该公司首席增长官西默斯·弗拉特利在台南对法新社表示。“如果你有大量小型无人水面艇在外面执行许多不同任务，这确实能大大减轻海巡署和海军的负担，以及他们那些灰色船体舰艇所承担的任务。”“改变游戏规则者”弗吉尼亚州无人水面艇制造商STR8 Industries首席执行官菲尔·霍表示，无人海上无人艇将使台湾能够“投射可扩展的力量”。
视型号而定，一艘海上无人艇的造价从数千美元到数百万美元不等，建造时间需数周或数月——但仍比军舰或潜艇便宜且快得多。
We're making an investment in Taiwan," Seamus Flatley, chief growth officer for the company, told AFP in Tainan.“If you've got a lot of small USVs out there doing a lot of different missions, it really takes a load off of the coast guard and the Navy and what some of their grey hull ships are doing.”‘Game changer’Virginia USV maker STR8 Industries CEO Phil Ho said uncrewed sea drones would enable Taiwan to "project scalable force".Depending on the model, a sea drone can cost anywhere from thousands to millions of US dollars, and take weeks or months to build -- still much cheaper and faster than a warship or submarine.
前美国参议院国家安全顾问、现任职于全球台湾研究所的布莱斯·巴罗斯表示，这使它们成为与中国发生冲突时相对低成本的“改变游戏规则者”。
That makes them a relatively low-cost "game changer" in a conflict with China, said Bryce Barros, a former US Senate national security adviser and currently at the Global Taiwan Institute."
“使用无人水面艇和无人水下航行器非常重要，因为它们肯定会使中国军事行动及其核算变得复杂。”
Using USVs and UUVs are really important because they definitely complicate Chinese military operations and the calculus for it."
台北国防安全研究院军事专家苏紫云表示，它们还能“解决台湾因出生率下降导致的兵源短缺问题”。中国制裁巴拉圭、伯利兹部长，冻结其资产台湾关系；同时实施签证禁令新加坡自主水下航行器公司BeeX首席执行官Grace Chia表示，自中东战争爆发、伊朗宣称控制霍尔木兹海峡以来，全球对无人水下航行器（UUV）的兴趣大幅上升。
They can also "address Taiwan's manpower shortage caused by its declining birth rate," said Su Tzu-yun, a military expert at the Taipei-based Institute for National Defense and Security Research. China sanctions Paraguay, Belize ministers, freezes their assets over Taiwan ties; visa ban also imposedGlobal interest in UUVs has soared since the start of the Middle East war when Iran claimed control of the Strait of Hormuz, said Grace Chia, chief executive of Singapore autonomous underwater vehicles firm BeeX."
Chia告诉法新社：“我们看到需求显著增加，因为人们开始意识到，只需一枚非常简单的水雷就能摧毁整个航道，而这正是水下机器人发挥作用、中和这些目标的地方。”
We have seen a significant increase in demand as people start to realise that you can just have a very simple mine destroy a whole entire channel, and that's where underwater robots come in to neutralise these targets," Chia told AFP.
分析人士警告，台湾在寻求将不同类型的无人机整合进军队、使各系统实现互联互通、以及在无法使用对乌克兰军队行动至关重要的埃隆·马斯克“星链”卫星的情况下操作这些系统时，面临诸多挑战。
Analysts warn of challenges as Taiwan seeks to integrate different types of drones into its military, get the systems to talk to each other, and operate them without access to Elon Musk's Starlink satellites that have been crucial to the Ukrainian army's operations."
Barros表示：“卫星通信对无人水面航行器（USV）平台很重要。”
Satellite communications for USV platforms are important," Barros said."
“但这实际上取决于作战范围，对于在台湾近岸、其12海里（22公里）领海范围内的行动来说，重要性较低。”
But that really depends on the range of operations, and matters less for operations that are in Taiwan's near shore within its 12 nautical mile (22 kilometre) territorial zone."