Max pro edition sighted in the wild.
09III/09IV (093/094) Nuclear Submarine Thread
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This is 093B?
Judging by the shape of the sail on that SSN (and Ayi's mention on Weibo), yes.
In the meantime, here's hopeful that we might be able to have a glimpse at the 16 or 24 VLS cells located behind the sail soon...
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The one that was first launched in 2022 should be about to get commissioned. It might have been commissioned already.
I got the info from here. Unless your info is better than Sutton. I don't know.. Maybe you can have your own website and write articles like Sutton. I will read both of them
The new X rudder sub is a stepping stone for the upcoming type 095 sub. Everything is the same except it has a nuclear reactor and able to launch hypersonic missile.
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That is a 1st of April joke from Naval News. Writing on a website doesn't make you credible. Also your idea you could just slap a nuclear reactor to an SSK and make it an SSN is from an alternate reality. If I were you, I would follow defense industry and, ideally, several other technical industries for a few more years before commenting on these.
Two things:
1. Sutton isn't exactly an authority on the PLAN
2. The article you are citing is literally an April Fools article (aka a joke)
That is a trivializing the differences between different submarine types.
Yes, X tails on the new SSK will have usefulness for future submarines that use X tails (including 09V), however a nuclear submarine is not "everything the same" except for having a nuclear reactor and launching hypersonics.
Think about the sheer difference in size and displacement alone.
It looks consistent with the profile of the model from 2022 as well (which I have always thought to represent the more likely "realistic" profile of 09IIIB as the painting has some sharpish lines).
That said, the photo is so blurry it's always prudent to recognize it might be a fabrication.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
Also, in case you didn't know - Sutton's reputation literally dipped down into the gutter sometime late last year when he erreously claimed (then unsuccessfully tried to back up his claim) that a 093A SSN sank in the fr1ggin Taiwan Strait (yes, you heard that right - Taiwan Strait which isn't even more than 60 meters deep in most parts) merely based on a couple bogus articles published by an anti-China news media that is associated with the FLG.
And if you're wondering why no big international news media were reporting on that - Because they'd be having a field day every day for months already by now if that's the actual case.
So, yeah. We do know what Sutton is, alongside one of his co-workers who sincerely believed that Chinese warships have no watertight doors.
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