We’ve long heard about China’s Dongfeng-series (DF) missiles that are reputed to be capable of destroying United States Navy aircraft carriers that dare to get within the range of these potent Chinese weapons. 

But it isn’t only missiles that China is developing to sink America’s primary naval power projection platform. Chinese-affiliated social media accounts have been posting videos about China’s newest form of carrier-killing weapons: drone swarms.

But these drone swarms are not your typical drone swarms, launched from a ground position at targets near or above them. Instead, the video depicts these drones being launched from Chinese submarines. 

Chinese Drones Are Transmedium Now

Specifically, China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University, with assistance from scientists at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), has declared that it has successfully developed underwater drone swarms specifically meant to destroy U.S. carriers.

Once deployed from Chinese submarines, these underwater drones would form a swarm in the air and launch surprise attacks on........

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