The impetus for this concept came from a worldbuilding drawing about an humanitarian navy : I wondered why a non-military navy would use a military-style aircraft carrier, since most aid operations are centered on transport aircraft and oriented towards food/medicine airlift and search/rescue. But an NGO cannot afford to field an aircraft carrier, so how could they do air delivery without a dedicated ship ?
So I imagined a civilian version of the Shipboard Containerised Air Defence System (SCADS) capable of launching a variety of drones ranging from small ones made from cardboard to large fixed-wing ones. The whole system is stored in about 120 standard 20ft shipping containers and can be installed on top of any container ship large enough to accommodate it.