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China’s Nuclear Subs Are Ready to Terrorize the Sea (Now Russia, America and China)
The Daily Beast ^ | 5/19/16 | David Axe

Posted on 05/19/2016 5:47:20 AM PDT by cba123

Beijing will soon be able to launch nuclear missiles from the sea. And that's going to make it harder to deter any future Chinese aggression.

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China's about to join an exclusive club for nuclear powers. After decades of development, 2016 could be the year the Chinese navy finally sends its ballistic-missile submarines-"SSBN" is the Pentagon’s designation-to sea for the first time for operational patrols with live, nuclear-tipped rockets.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/19/china-s-nuclear-subs-are-ready-to-terrorize-the-sea.html

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: america; china; clinton; clintonlegacy; navy; russia
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To: Mariner

The US will still have to send out surveillance patrols to shadow the ChiCom subs and record their patrol routes. With the goal being that we know where their subs are most likely to be found. I read several years ago that “by the numbers” the Russia missile subs were most likely to be under the polar ice in the Bering sea or just to the east of Greenland sea ice.


21 posted on 05/19/2016 7:49:04 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: samtheman
National Socialists are not worse than International Communists.

The Mohammedan totalitarian ideology is not worse than the Marxist totalitarian ideology.

The Cold War was not a 'fantasy'.

The Peoples' Republic of China is not our friend. Neither is the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, or the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mention those three because they are in cahoots with each other against us.

Murderous totalitarian thugs with nuclear weapons are all bad, regardless of what totalitarian ideology they use.

22 posted on 05/19/2016 7:52:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: NorthMountain

Although you have said nothing that can be labeled “untrue”, I think it’s worth mentioning that China has shown (at least so far) very little propensity towards expansionism outside it’s own coastal areas (and of course it is interested in Taiwan).

Also, it is worth mentioning that the difference between communism inside China and communism inside North Korea is the difference between night and day (though yes, they are both evil).

In the old days, the Soviet Union was definitely expansionist, supporting communist expansion all over the globe.

I don’t see China doing that, though it is, of course, promoting its own economic interests where possible, as in Africa.

Also, of course China is evil in Tibet.

But compare all of that to the expansionism of Islam, and it is Islam that I worry about right now, not China.

Historical note: China stopped the advance of Islam in a great battle in the 10th century, stopped it dead in its tracks as it expanded east.


23 posted on 05/19/2016 8:00:46 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: samtheman
I think it’s worth mentioning that China has shown (at least so far) very little propensity towards expansionism outside it’s own coastal areas (and of course it is interested in Taiwan).

Viet Nam and the Philippines would probably view them a little differently. Likewise Japan and South Korea. An SSBN is not a tool for waging a local, coastal war. I think your view of China is dangerously optimistic. Yes, Mohammedanism is a global threat. Communism (in its myriad guises) is no less of a global threat.

24 posted on 05/19/2016 8:05:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: NorthMountain

I do agree with everything you say. I am not going to waste any more words “defending” China. Communism is communism and historically they are absolutely the worst ever in history.

I wish more people knew the details of the Great Leap Forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward


25 posted on 05/19/2016 8:08:12 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: cba123
But, they are rapidly progressing.

Not if the Type 94's are any indication There is no streamlining in that hull design. It's likely to be noisier than all get out and not at all hard to track when compared with the SSBMs from other countries.

26 posted on 05/19/2016 8:13:42 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: samtheman
Are you familiar with the work of the late R J Rummel documenting democide and genocide?

I would like to see someone take up where he left off. Mohammedanism is proving to be a great government (and government-like) perpetrator of mass murder.

27 posted on 05/19/2016 8:15:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: NorthMountain

Not familiar. Thanks for the reference. I will read it.


28 posted on 05/19/2016 8:16:29 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Mariner
Interestingly, there's a SONAR tech in Pearl Harbor that listens to the movements of EVERY Chinese sub from the time it leaves port to the time it returns. And pinpoints it's location. They are that loud.

This is significant... Loud submarines are sunk submarines...

29 posted on 05/19/2016 8:42:36 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: MichaelRDanger

The thing about sinking a Chinese submarine is that an hour later you feel like sinking a Chinese submarine all over again.


30 posted on 05/19/2016 10:22:15 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Mariner

This is a public forum that information you gave is not really appropriate for this forum.


31 posted on 05/19/2016 10:23:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: samtheman
I will read it.

That will take some time ...

;'}

32 posted on 05/19/2016 10:24:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: cba123

Yes I see... Whoever wrote this article he had a too vivid fantasy.


33 posted on 05/19/2016 11:48:50 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: central_va
This is a public forum that information you gave is not really appropriate for this forum.

Security through obscurity is no security at all. Stuff like that is not really a secret.

34 posted on 05/19/2016 12:51:03 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau

Ok Hillary.


35 posted on 05/19/2016 12:58:25 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Diogenesis
How much were the Chinese helped by the Clinton

And how much of it was funded with the money they made from these stupid free trade deals?

36 posted on 05/19/2016 4:37:24 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: MichaelRDanger; Mariner; StoneWall Brigade
This is significant... Loud submarines are sunk submarines..

If a nation has the will to sink them yes. A small craft approaching a docked Navy ship refueling in Yemen was also visible and it's exact location known. It's not so much a sub but what any sub has onboard in missile capabilities. I doubt once missiles are launched toward China's intended targets that China could care less if the Sub and crew survives. Any sub in their hands is dangerous in that respect.

37 posted on 05/19/2016 8:41:43 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: cva66snipe

It’s good enough that they know we can take them out preemptively.


38 posted on 05/19/2016 8:52:54 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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