Chinese Mothership for XLUUVs

[Kirkhill]

China Builds World’s First Mothership for Large Uncrewed Submarines: A Revolution in Undersea Warfare

Satellite imagery reviewed has shown a large and highly unusual vessel under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, with its configuration strongly indicating that it is intended t…

militarywatchmagazine.com

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Been done before, except the new ones are smarter

 

[JMCanada]

Wouldn't it make sense something similar to deploy the Type 212-CDs at a choke point? at least while in peace time?
Would convert transit days to the choke point into useful days on patrol and then return to home port by themselves. I first read about this idea on one article in CDR a few years back.

 

[OldSolduer]

Sabotage it. Install screen doors

 

[oldcpu]

Wouldn't it make sense something similar to deploy the Type 212-CDs at a choke point? at least while in peace time?
Would convert transit days to the choke point into useful days on patrol and then return to home port by themselves. I first read about this idea on one article in CDR a few years back.

In my view its one of a number of viable strategies, to wait quietly at choke points to/from the Arctic. One should note though, Russian submarines need not transit the Labrador Sea nor Berring Strait choke points to enter the Arctic. So waiting at choke points is not a 100% fully complete Arctic sustained presence/patrol strategy for Type-212CD submarines. I also suspect choke point waiting could also be a plausible mission for unmanned submersibles.

 

[Stoker]

Wouldn't it make sense something similar to deploy the Type 212-CDs at a choke point? at least while in peace time?
Would convert transit days to the choke point into useful days on patrol and then return to home port by themselves. I first read about this idea on one article in CDR a few years back.

I agree. Forward deploying the Type 212CDs near strategic choke points during peacetime would make considerable operational sense. It would convert long transit periods into useful patrol days and allow the submarines to spend more time where their presence matters.

These locations could also be monitored by networks of fixed or deployable acoustic sensors communicating with autonomous underwater vehicles. The AUVs could patrol, investigate contacts and relay information back through the wider surveillance network, allowing the submarine to concentrate on the most important areas and contacts.