Second Chinese unmanned underwater vehicle mothership appears at Guangzhou Shipyard
Satellite imagery from Guangzhou reveals a second suspected Chinese UUV mothership under construction at Guangzhou Shipyard International. The vessel is a scaled-down version of China's first such ship and is designed to launch and recover large underwater drones. The shipyard is known for building special-purpose vessels.
Why it matters: China is building UUV motherships faster than NATO is defining doctrine for countering them—this second hull proves Beijing sees submarine drones as fleet capability, not niche experiment.
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