"Illustration of the USS Delaware deploying the Yellow Moray spy robot underwater. Image generated by AI" (Sustainability Times, “US Navy Breaks the Silence”: World’s First Reusable Underwater Spy Robot Deployed on Nuclear Submarine"
The U.S Navy released and returned the underwater spy drone to the torpedo tube. That is the new age for the UUV (Underwater unmanned vehicles). The underwater drone or autonomous underwater vehicle, AUV, can operate in exactly the same missions as ground-launched drones. But they have one advantage. Those drones can also operate underwater. Those small-sized drones can also carry sub-drones. And that thing makes those systems more deadly than anybody expects.
There is a possibility that just before landing, troops arrive, and small drones can be deployed near the beach. And when orders arrive, those systems can release that drone swarm to sweep the enemy out from the beach. When we think about those systems and their capacity, those drones are mainly platform-independent. They can operate with tanks and against them. Drone swarms can give fire support to other units.
And they can be carried in any box. Those independently operating kamikaze-drones can use the images of the targets to aim and destroy them. The drone swarms can travel to harbors underwater and then attack against ship’s underwater structures, or they can rise to airborne and cause damage to radars and other systems. Or they can explode themselves on missiles, depth charges, or torpedoes. That can increase damages. The drone is the next-generation system.
There are plans to use drone motherships. The drones can be multi-level systems. The drone carrier can operate autonomously. The carrier and submarines can operate as data centers for those drones. The human-looking robots can operate on those giant robots. And small-sized drones can also have wireless reload systems. Those carriers can also carry things like 3D printers that allow them to build new quadcopters.
The Chinese are testing a new large mothership drone that is similar to NATO Global Hawk drones, but this drone can launch thousands of kamikaze drones over the battlefield. When we think about flying aircraft carriers. The VTOL aircraft that can hover in the air can allow the smaller drones to fly into their cargo bay and reload their batteries. The idea is taken from The Jetsons and their flying aircraft carrier. The fact is that Chinook or V-22 “Osprey” can operate in that role. The helicopter or aircraft can hover above the operational area, and those drones can fill their electric load in its cargo bay.
There is no limit to the size of the quadcopters. And that means the nuclear-powered, large-size quadcopters can make it possible to operate drones or even larger aerial vehicles at airborne. The spaceborne aircraft carrier can be a spacecraft or a satellites that operate miniature satellites. Those satellites can operate at the orbiter more or less independently, and when their propellant is finished, those systems can fly to the larger satellite that fills their propellant tank.
Miniature satellites can act as space spies that observe other satellites. And in wartime, those satellites can act as kinetic energy killer satellites that impact with other satellites. Miniature satellites can also protect bigger satellites. When the kinetic energy ASAT missile closes the satellite, the miniature satellites can impact with that satellite killer.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-has-developed-the-largest-drone-carrier-in-the-world-and-its-getting-ready-for-takeoff
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-drone-aircraft-carrier-what-you-need-know-and-why-it-matters-211085
https://pentoz.com/mothership-drones/
https://www.sustainability-times.com/energy/us-navy-breaks-the-silence-worlds-first-reusable-underwater-spy-robot-deployed-on-nuclear-submarine/
https://www.twz.com/drones-that-swim-and-fly-to-be-launched-recovered-by-uncrewed-submarine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_underwater_vehicle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_underwater_vehicle