Chinese Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)

00CuriousObserver

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Yankee called it 警塞冬 "poseidon" so maybe even nuclear armed/propulsion like its russian counterpart. (Edited to remove something i shouldn't post as 'definitely'/reduced confident rhetoric)

This might be one of those thing that was touted to "shake western watchers" (or some rhetorical equivalent)

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He said 鳖塞冬, which is a play on word where 鳖 means China/CCP. So "Poseidon - Chinese ver"
 

bebops

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What are the pros of Poseidon torpedo? thousands of mile range?

If this is indeed a Poseidon torpedo, they are operational or still in development?
 

para80

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Poseidon is a very notional capability to deliver a nuclear warhead against a coastal installation, bypassing American BMD.

I am not convinced China is thinking along such lines. As someone else on Twitter pointed out, the designation of the carrier vehicle indicates an uncrewed system, ie a drone, and perhaps as such not a weapon. Although the distinction is not always clear, nowadays.
 
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