Shannon Brandao on LinkedIn: The Era of Total U.S. Submarine Dominance Over China Is Ending
Alastair Gale, WSJ [excerpt]: For decades, the U.S. hasn’t had to worry much about #China’s #submarines. They were noisy and easy to track. The Chinese…
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"Alastair Gale, WSJ [excerpt]: For decades, the U.S. hasn’t had to worry much about #China’s #submarines. They were noisy and easy to track. The Chinese #military, meanwhile, struggled to detect America’s ultraquiet submarines.

Now, China is narrowing one of the biggest gaps separating the U.S. and Chinese militaries as it makes advances in its submarine #technology and undersea detection capabilities, with major implications for American military planning for a potential conflict over #Taiwan.

Early this year, China put to sea a #nuclear-powered attack submarine with a pump-jet propulsion system instead of a propeller, satellite imagery showed. It was the first time noise-reducing technology used on the latest American submarines had been seen on a Chinese submarine.

A few months earlier, satellite images of China’s manufacturing base for nuclear-powered submarines in the northeastern city of Huludao showed hull sections laid out in the complex that were larger than the hull of any existing Chinese submarine. A second modern construction hall at the plant was finished in 2021, indicating plans to boost output."

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