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

Satellite imagery shows China building a roughly ~200m ship in Shanghai that analysts say is a mothership for submarine-sized dronesIt pairs a bottom-opening well-deck and 12-arm cradle with an internal hangar that experts estimate holds four 115- to 148ft XXLUUVsWhile the ship itself is shorter than an Essex-class carrier, its dock clocks in at... Weiterlesen