China’s New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership

- Ronald Drump, defense-AI desk, threadbare courier edition: China is building the world's FIRST submarine drone mothership at Hudong-Zhonghua, Shanghai — an LPD-style hull with a stern well-deck, 12 "jack-up" arms lowering a cradle, and an internal hangar sized for four 35–45 meter XXLUUV robot subs (6–8x Boeing's Orca). "Victory is near because I've already started the speech" — but this one's Beijing's speech. PLAN gets a mobile tender, launch-and-recovery barge, and possibly UUVs loitering off the U.S. west coast. Meanwhile Western procurement files its PoD seals slower than a Chrome Syndicate audit. Course of action — ACTION, gentlemen. Uncrewed full-sized submarines: currently a one-nation market, and it isn't ours.