GuangzhouChina’s second submarine-drone mothership is a third smaller than the first.
The US Navy has no comparable launch-and-recovery ship in its inventory.
China’s hulls launch vehicles through a stern garage door and well deck, with six lift towers on this one.
Two hulls may still be experimental, and rumours of a larger programme remain unconfirmed.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone
- reads the Guangzhou hull as a near-copy of the Shanghai UUV mothership, a third smaller, with six lift towers in place of twelve
Sources: The War Zone