Re: Chinese sub thread
You can compare using the Song next to it.
If the humpless sub is 094, then how would you call this current boomer then? I want to repeat again, it is not based on the Xia as it means it would be based on the Han. The similarity comes in principle, both subs are conversions of SSNs. If you look the front bow of the current boomer, see the pattern of the limber hole line then compare it to the 093. The same. Check the rear of the sub and check the limber hole line to the 093's at the same location. The same. That means the sub is using hull sections off the 093.
Lets assume hypothetically, perhaps the PLAN has decided not to give an SSBN conversion a new number like they did with the Xia. The same way 052D didn't get a new number like 055 but rather a letter. Lets assume if the PLAN changed its policy in designation. Then this boomer might be an 093X then, X being an unknown letter. Then 094 would be a totally different class altogether.
We're just discussing trivial matters of designation. I do believe that the next PLAN boomer would be a dedicated design, and it will come out sooner or later.
The Yuan for example, we are not clear of its actual designation yet. Some people believe it is 041, because every attack sub has an odd number. Others believe it is 039A, reflecting its Song origins, meaning its not the hull that counts but what's inside. The hull of the Yuan in fact, is quite different from the Song's, though there is a possibility, the shape of the Yuan is the outer hull covering an inner hull that is built like a Song's.
Lets go back to an older sub. The Ming class gets the 035 designation despite that in reality, its just an improved 033. So it's not called an 033G or 033A. Then on top of that, an improved Ming get to be called 035G, and there is apparently no 037 which would have filled the gap between the Ming and the Song.
You can compare using the Song next to it.
If the humpless sub is 094, then how would you call this current boomer then? I want to repeat again, it is not based on the Xia as it means it would be based on the Han. The similarity comes in principle, both subs are conversions of SSNs. If you look the front bow of the current boomer, see the pattern of the limber hole line then compare it to the 093. The same. Check the rear of the sub and check the limber hole line to the 093's at the same location. The same. That means the sub is using hull sections off the 093.
Lets assume hypothetically, perhaps the PLAN has decided not to give an SSBN conversion a new number like they did with the Xia. The same way 052D didn't get a new number like 055 but rather a letter. Lets assume if the PLAN changed its policy in designation. Then this boomer might be an 093X then, X being an unknown letter. Then 094 would be a totally different class altogether.
We're just discussing trivial matters of designation. I do believe that the next PLAN boomer would be a dedicated design, and it will come out sooner or later.
The Yuan for example, we are not clear of its actual designation yet. Some people believe it is 041, because every attack sub has an odd number. Others believe it is 039A, reflecting its Song origins, meaning its not the hull that counts but what's inside. The hull of the Yuan in fact, is quite different from the Song's, though there is a possibility, the shape of the Yuan is the outer hull covering an inner hull that is built like a Song's.
Lets go back to an older sub. The Ming class gets the 035 designation despite that in reality, its just an improved 033. So it's not called an 033G or 033A. Then on top of that, an improved Ming get to be called 035G, and there is apparently no 037 which would have filled the gap between the Ming and the Song.
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