Taipei, July 29 (CNA) Taiwan-based drone manufacturer Thunder Tiger Corp. teamed up with U.S. defense company Shield AI on Wednesday to demonstrate mission autonomy software in a coordinated operation involving unmanned surface vessels (USVs). After receiving the mission parameters, Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software divided the search area into two sectors, assigning one USV to each. A Thunder Tiger SeaShark 800 unmanned surface vessel (left) intercepts a target vessel of interest during a demonstration at Dapeng Bay in Pingtung County on Wednesday. Thunder Tiger Chairman William Chen. The Ministry of National Defense has requested funding to procure 1,446 coastal reconnaissance drones, 208,200 coastal attack drones and 1,320 unmanned surface vessels.