China is building what appears to be the world's first mothership designed to deploy giant submarine drones, spotted at a Shanghai shipyard.

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China is building what appears to be the world's first mothership designed to deploy giant submarine drones, spotted at a Shanghai shipyard. The ship has a well-deck, a lowering cradle system, and an internal hangar that could hold around four uncrewed submarines. China already has two types of XXLUUVs (35m and 45m long) under testing — 6 to 8 times the size of the US Navy's Orca drone sub. H I Sutton at Naval News says the only plausible explanation is a combat drone submarine mothership,