Currently, only Russia, North Korea, and China have successfully developed intercontinental unmanned submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles. Intercontinental unmanned submarines can lie dormant for long periods in key maritime areas, automatically waking up when there is an enemy presence, and autonomously attacking. Just thinking about it is exciting! A large torpedo-like object, if equipped with a nuclear warhead, would not be technically difficult. As for whether it is nuclear-powered, it depends on the practicality of nuclear batteries. Whether it's North Korea's large unmanned submarine or China's unmanned submarine, a nuclear power source is feasible; a small nuclear reactor can drive it, providing nearly unlimited endurance for a short period. In addition to carrying a nuclear warhead to destroy ports, there may also be long-term ambush-style unmanned submarines, which use their own characteristics of unmanned vessels to lurk long-term at critical points where enemy submarines pass. During peacetime, they can detect and collect data and signals from enemy submarines, and during wartime, they can ambush enemy submarines. Could it be that unmanned submarines do not carry nuclear warheads but are themselves just large intercontinental torpedoes, directly colliding with enemy submarines and warships in the sea, causing them to collide? For example, the U.S. Seawolf-class nuclear submarine "Connecticut" collided and was damaged in the South China Sea in 2021. The characteristics of such unmanned submarines are that their cost may not exceed hundreds of millions, but it is relatively cheap to strike surface ships or submarines worth billions. Previously, the U.S. nuclear submarines had certain overall advantages. These new things may allow us to overtake again. If it could be a huge torpedo with a range of 15,000 km, it would be fun. It could intercept missiles in the sky and locate enemy ports underwater, eliminating them all at once without the enemy knowing where it came from. Full electric pump propulsion, reconnaissance and strike integration, in the future, tactical unmanned submarines just need to lie in the ocean trench and open their mouths to feed, which could be called the new era wolf pack tactics.

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