Originally Posted by
zambonidriver
Is there really a point to such a design?
I seem to recall that the Soviets built something similar with the objective of being an Aircraft Carrier killer - come in fast under the radar, sink the carrier, exit stage left.
Whether it could have worked back then is dubious (and probably the Soviets worked that out, given that they discontinued the program). With improvements in both defensive and offensive uncrewed systems since the Cold War, it surely a non-starter today in that role.
Perhaps the Chinese have come up with a new idea on how to make it good for something, but I doubt that they will tell us if they have.