Mines, surveillance UAVs, and electronic-warfare equipment offer alternatives to a heavy strike-missile installation. The discussion then shifts to ice-class offshore support ships, which can carry and power about six containers and, in some designs, have fuel and range for remote North Atlantic or North Sea work. Those existing requirements make them more plausible hosts than a large container liner arranged around an unusual military cargo. Large crabbers and trawlers are another suggested option because some carry six to twelve refrigerated containers. Their normal work can also explain remaining nearly stationary inside or outside shipping lanes. These are proposed uses of civilian vessel types, rather than identified covert deployments.
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More plausible hosts for containerized military systems
Offshore support ships and large fishing vessels already combine container space, electrical power, and operating patterns relevant to military payloads.