| History | |
|---|---|
 PRC | |
| Name | Mirage Hunter |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Mirage Hunter |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | None |
| Armament | Unarmed |
| Aircraft carried | None |
| Aviation facilities | None |
Mirage Hunter (Chinese: 幻影猎手,Hanyu Pinyin: Huan-Ying Lie-Shou)technical research ship (AGTR) is a very little known navalauxiliary ship currently of thePeople's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).[1][2] First revealed in January 2012 with standard Chinese naval camouflage,[3] only a single unit has been built as of mid-2010s.
Externally, Mirage Hunter looks identical toSea Shadow (IX-529), albeit on a much scaled-down size, and both ships adopt the samesmall-waterplane-area twin hull design.[1][2][3] Mirage Hunter is built by a shipyard inWuhan, where the 701st Institute ofChina Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) headquartered. 701st Institute is the primary Chinese research establishment conducting research on stealth features for ships and boats, and it is therefore postulated that Mirage Hunter AGTR is used by Chinese to research on the hull form of naval stealth technology and countermeasures.[1][2][3]
