The US military announced the indefinite deployment of an unmanned boat in Okinawa to counter China's missile pressure... but only one unit?
The US military is becoming increasingly darkly humorous.
On the 4th, Kyodo News cited Japanese government sources revealing that the US Marines temporarily deployed a semi-submersible unmanned vessel (ALPV) in Okinawa last October, which has now been changed to an indefinite deployment. The Japanese Ministry of Defense will notify local authorities such as Okinawa on the 5th.
But it's very dramatic: despite the Japanese media vigorously promoting how advanced this unmanned vessel is and how it can help the US military transport supplies when facing China's "threat" of missiles, so far, the number of this type of unmanned vessel deployed by the US in Okinawa is only one...
More accurately, this unmanned vessel that the Japanese media has hyped up is actually just a prototype. Its design was inspired by semi-submersible submarines used by drug traffickers in Latin America for drug trafficking. Therefore, the US military believes that since these semi-submersible submarines can be used to transport drugs, they can also transport supplies in wartime environments after being converted into unmanned vessels.
However, as always, in recent years, the US has proposed many flashy concepts for scenarios of war with China, but few of them have been implemented.
For example, the concept of the US semi-submersible unmanned vessel reported by Japanese media was first introduced in 2022, but it wasn't until 2024 that the first verification model was made. As of July this year, the vessel is still under testing, and mass production is still far away.
Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1839589251694665/
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