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Mix and match how? Your entire one-way arsenal is sitting in cargo containers off the coast of an enemy nation by definition within drone range.

At this point you've built a very slow, very short ranged undefended arsenal ship.

Your proposal is to put a large supply of systems closer to enemy forces and the you're implying that somehow this wouldn't be vulnerable to being attacked while landed?

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Check out the 'Toloka' family for one sample of what drones are like. They've been used in strikes already.
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That's a submarine.

Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It also cannot detect nor engage incoming air threats, like essentially every single in service submarine on the planet due to the whole "being underwater" thing.

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Yes, it's is a submersible, but it is also a drone.

> Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It doesn't need to. It is its own munition with a anywhere from 500 to a couple of tons of explosives on board. And a very impressive range.

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Why might the US be using air power to strike targets which are inland in Iran?

What characteristics of a submarine might be considerably problematic to doing that?

Would these problems perhaps also effect a defensive mission to prevent air strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz?

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