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SUBSEA DEFENSE ULTRA-LARGE AUVS could provide a forward-deployed charging station to enable a does/autonomous underwater munitions, loitering munitions/ persistent, wide-area, covert forward undersea presence. The SLUAS launched from encapsulated canisters, or even FPV

Navy’s recent successful testing of the Yellow Moray torpedo strike drones. The Russo-Ukraine War has demonstrated the tube launch and recovery (TTLR) system suggests that, once power of massed FPV drones for strike warfare. This was par- mature, this technology, or a scaled-up version, could one day ticularly apparent during Operation Spider’s Web, which saw be integrated into an autonomous platform like a UL-AUV. A covertly inserted FPV drones strike strategic bombers and air-

Yellow Moray-type system could also enable a UL-AUV to