UK outlines 'hybrid navy' with MUS motherships for CUI and Hormuz ops

UK defence minister describes accelerating integration of maritime uncrewed systems (USVs/UUVs) into Royal Navy operations, including CUI protection and a Hormuz mission using RFA Lyme Bay as an MCM 'mothership' and command node. The novelty is the explicit shift toward a large-scale 'hybrid navy' force structure (up to a '1,000-ship navy') and operationalizing mothership-enabled uncrewed MCM and counter-UAV packages for real deployments.