China is readying the world's first giant submarine UAV carrier — built with a 1115ft dock, the unnamed mothership could be longer (and bigger) than WW2 light aircraft carriers and carry 148ft underwater drones
THE SO WHAT
An underwater UAV mothership that extends the reach of 148 ft robot submarines is another step toward persistent, automated undersea presence. Undersea cables, offshore energy, and naval logistics all need to assume more autonomous, harder-to-attribute actors in their threat models.
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